Burhan, Islamabad and Gwadar
Delhi manipulated post-1965 support in Kashmir by permitting a minority political class to grow gradually and dominate the scene. Strategic affairs specialists Pravin Sawhney...
A Statesman
In 1947, Kashmir was literally independent for many fortnights. After rumours about the major princely state joining India, there was Poonch rebellion and tribal...
Partition To Tashkent
Moscow's role in the UN has remained fundamental to New Delhi's Kashmir policy. The base for this role was laid when the top Soviet...
Women In Kashmir Tehreek
After centuries of suppression when Kashmir launched its struggle to regain the life of dignity and honour, it was not a male-only battle. Dr...
The Bridge Builder Poet
Poet Agha Shahid Ali (February 4, 1949 to December 8, 2001) eventually became Kashmir’s identity in the English literature. On his fifteenth death anniversary,...
Shahabad’s Samud Shah
Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63) was a British barrister who played first class cricket 11 times between 1819 and 1845. The first Englishman who has...
Scattered Souls – An Appraisal
by Ihsan Malik
In the past Kashmir has seen some remarkable short story writers writing in the native language. The creative and ingenuous efforts of...
Penman’s Peregrination
Life takes a full circle, quite literally. Syed Asma talks to noted Urdu and Kashmiri essayist Prof Mohammed Zaman Azurdah to piece together dots...
The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism, A Review
Book: The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism (From The Cold War To The Present Day)
Author: Nandita Haksar
Print Length: xvi + 335
Genre: Non Fiction / Narrative
Publisher: Speaking Tiger, New...
Cashmere’s Lalla Rookh
British poet’s 1817 narrative made Cashmere instantly famous in the West but nobody knew the man had fallen in love with the Vale without...
Kashmir’s Nitasha
Her debut novel speaks a long tale of a lost identity and that was precisely why the jury at Man Asian Literary Prize found it...
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...
Narrator of Pain
From the strife-torn Kashmir when Shahnaz Bashir came out with his woeful tale of the ‘half mother’, many reacted saying that a new spokesperson...
Forgotten Dispatches
France’s ‘botanical romantic’ Victor Vincelas Jacquemont (1801-1832) spent 1831 summer in Kashmir at the peak of exploitative Sikh misrule. Letters, he sent home from...
Scars of the Pellet Gun – Review
"This book is not in any way a political lecture, but it is a compassionate and an enthralling work of the author who has...
