“…There is some realignment within the administration (in Jammu)”
Minutes after his Kashmir conflict and Muslims of Jammu was formally released last week, journalist Zafar Choudhary spoke to Durdana Bhat about the state...
CuK’s “precondition” disgruntles book suppliers of valley
Bilal Handoo
SRINAGAR
The book supply lines that feed libraries of educational institutes across Kashmir aren’t always devoid of dubious deals. At least, this is what...
“I don’t think justice is going to be given to you!”
Coalition of Civil Society Kashmir invited Mridu Rai, author of ‘Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and The History of Kashmir’ to deliver a...
“If there is one word the novel is all about, I would say, it...
An academic and novelist, Shahnaz Bashir’s first book The Half Mother is set for release on June 21. He tells Safwat Zargar that the...
Dialogue Details
Atal Behari Vajpayee’s government is credited by everybody for the talks he initiated with Kashmir’s moderate Hurriyat Conference. Barring a courtesy call on Vajpayee,...
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
It...
A Glimpse of History
By: Irfan Tramboo
What happened in Kashmir in the pre-1947 era is still largely shrouded in mystery. Only once in a while, we get to...
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...
