1860: A Kashmir Memoir
A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas blends travel, ethnography, and empire, depicting the Himalayas through beauty and domination. It reveals colonial attitudes toward nature,...
Kashmir’s Madhouse: A Swiss Psychiatrist’s Story
In The Madhouse at the Lotus Lake, Erna Hoch’s memoir of psychiatric practice in 1980s Kashmir, the Swiss psychiatrist explores psychiatry’s fragile intersection with...
Kashmir: Coalition Lessons
Manoj Kumar Jha’s In Praise of Coalition Politics reflects on India’s coalition resurgence and Kashmir’s post-370 realities, urging dialogue, dignity, and integration over control,...
Vajpayee’s Hindutva Bridge
Abhishek Choudhary’s Believer’s Dilemma is a meticulously researched, psychologically sharp account of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Hindu Right from 1977 to 2018. It...
Kashmir: Book and Bans
As the Chinar Book Festival celebrates the written word in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir government has banned 25 books for allegedly promoting “anti-national”...
Srinagar Remembers
In Yaadgah, Berlin-based Kashmir scholar Arshi Javaid gathers a group of women to map their lived experiences of Shehr-e-Kashmir through memory, not merely as...
Kashmir: A Cop Introspects
Former Jammu Kashmir Police officer Ali Mohammad Watali witnessed uprisings from within and systemic injustice from above. After going through his new book, Babra...
Saurabh Kalia: A Kargil War Story
A powerful, fact-based tribute chronicling a soldier’s life, ultimate sacrifice, and his family’s quiet, unwavering pursuit to preserve memory and demand justice
Sreemati Sen and...
Mapping the Mountains
After trekking across more than 100 high-altitude lakes and walking deep into Kashmir’s wilderness for over two decades, Mahmood A Shah has compiled a...
Kashmir Dapaan
In Dapaan: Tales from Kashmir’s Conflict, Ipsita Chakravarty draws on the oral traditions of a fractured land to tell intimate stories shaped by loss...
Ghadar: The Revolution India Erased
In The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle, Rana Preet Gill excavates a buried chapter of India’s freedom struggle, reviving the stories of revolutionaries erased...
Untying the Knot
Set in nineteenth-century Srinagar, The Last Knot by Shabir Ahmad Mir is a lyrical tale of artistic defiance and spiritual resistance. Blending Kashmiri folklore...
POW 1971: A Forgotten Battle
The 1971 India-Pakistan war is often remembered for the forced divorce of Bangladesh, but the conflict’s western front remains a largely overlooked chapter. Major...
Kashmir’s Vanishing Bookshops
Amid challenges on multiple fronts, the space once held by longstanding bookshops is steadily shrinking. While a few continue to struggle for survival, many...
Farooq Abdullah: Trapped by Trust
Dr Farooq Abdullah, five-time Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and former RAW chief AS Dulat have shared a bond spanning nearly four decades....
