A Pandemic, A Lesson
Slovenian philosopher sees the Covid-19 pandemic as an intellectual malaise that has exposed “the ultimate abyss of our being” and its remedy lies in...
Interlocutor Tales
At the peak of 2010 unrest, Dr Manmohan Singh government appointed three interlocutors led by Editor Dilip Padgaonkar, with academic Prof Radha Kumar and...
Of Forgetting And Remembrance
Writing history of a zone where attempts to historicize events dwell on finding ‘heroes and villains’ and where corrupt academia has failed to relate...
1948: A War Dairy
Lt Gen Brij Mohan Kaul, the Lahore-born Kashmiri Pandit soldier, was a young colonel when he was posted in Kashmir in 1948 spring to...
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...
In Maharaja’s Defence
After going through the first of the three-volume book on the era presided over by Maharaja Hari Singh, Muhammad Nadeem believes the narrative is...
Link to the Past
Youngsters quest to find missing links to their troubled past has upped the sale of history books in Kashmir. Irfan Tramboo reports the trend
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Understanding Muslim Personal Law
A young law teacher has authored a book on Muslim Personal Law that has almost everything that a textbook requires, writes Dr SM Afzal...
Poetic Dreams
After the Kashmir situation orphaned her, the young girl from North Kashmir decided to become narrator to revive the reading habits in youth with...
The Azaad Memoir
For nearly half a century, Ghulam Nabi Azad rose from the ranks to the heights in Congress and the government in Delhi. He became...
A Servant’s ‘Truth Matter’
Reviewing Rassul Galwan’s autobiography, Onaiza Drabu sees the book seemingly lost most of its soul during editing that reduced it to a sort of...
Revealing Little
Amarjit Singh Dulat is one of the many Kashmir specialists. He has handled Kashmir in the capacity of a senior IB officer and later...
The Kashmir Cases
Last month, when Justice Uday Umesh Lalit took over as the new Chief Justice of India, Kashmir politician and former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah...
Reading Cardiologist’s Heart
Kashmir’s leading cardiologist, Dr U Kaul’s book offers interesting anecdotes about the evolution of better heart care and various heart-breaking events, writes Khalid Bashir...
Of Rhymes, and Rhymesters
When five poetry aficionados from different professions and places discovered a common thread in virtual world, they floated a cause to give podium to...
