Reintroducing Ghani Kashmiri
As the Persian language vanished from public life in Kashmir a huge amount of literature automatically became unreadable. A century later two scholars took...
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...
“So, the main conflict, I would say, is here [Kashmir] – the demand for...
Kashmir is mired in a series of overlapping conflicts, rather than being a single issue to be solved. In an exclusive interview with Syed...
A Musical Journey
When everything in Kashmir virtually came to a halt with the outbreak of militancy in 1989, Mohammad Amin Lala, a music enthusiast, found time...
Jinnah’s Kashmir Controversy II
In the concluding part of his response to the ragging controversy over Lord Mountbatten’s reported November 1, 1947 proposal for resolving Kashmir dispute, historian...
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...
