Jinnah’s Kashmir Controversy (I)
Noted Kashmir expert, commentator and author, AG Noorani’s utterance that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah rejected Lord Mountbatten’s proposal on November 01, 1947 and...
Writing For The Divided People
Pushed to the sidelines, the history of the erstwhile principality of Poonch has been largely ignored in understanding the Kashmir conflict. While the region...
Fresh Narrative
by Shujaat Bukhari
Christopher Snedden’s latest book Kashmir: The Unwritten History not only gives a twist to the cause of the division of Jammu and...
Geelani’s Autobiography
Sara Wani reviews the first volume of Syed Ali Geelani's autobiography, Wular Kinaray
Syed Ali Geelani’s autobiography Wular Kinaray (On the banks of Wular) is...
New Book, New Revelations
That Poonch rebellion and not the tribal raids were fundamental to the slicing of erstwhile Kashmir state is an established fact. But Christopher Snedden’s...
Reliving the Past
Even as tens of books were published this season, Kashmir read only two books in huge numbers – one by British authors exposing the...
Wronged Hostages
A recently released book ‘The Meadow’ shines the light on some of the darkest days in Kashmir’s contemporary history. In the impeccable piece of...
Celebrating books
The Jaipur Festival has become a huge literary affair with writers coming from all over the world to discuss literature. A session on Prison...
Meanings of The Collaborator
Sometimes fiction tells a truth more comprehensively than elements of truth put together as anything else. Zamir Ahmed writes about The Collaborator, its author...
Shakespeare In Kashmiri
Translating classics from any language to any other language not just enriches the realm of language but the culture of a people speaking that...
Window To My City
A prose poem about the city of Srinagar. It grew as response to Louis Borges’s poem about his beloved city of Buenos Aires.
When his...
Words On Paper
Australian artist Alana Hunt was moved by the ban on pre-paid cellphone and text messaging in Kashmir. She created paper text messages, a few...
Of Awards, Events and Assimilation
Awards and events for art and culture must reflect the sensibilities of civil society, not further the ideological agenda of a government, says Haseeb...
HARUD CONTROVERSY
The first proposed litfest in Kashmir generated controversy amid concerns raised by a group of individuals and extreme Facebook-reaction to rumors of controversial writers...
Will Harud Douse The Chinars?
Arif Ayaz Parrey
Trust the poet to make a prophecy.
I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir,
and the shadowed routine of each vein
will almost be news,...