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Books

Kashmir has been written about for centuries. Off late, owing to the peculiar situation Kashmir is in, almost every south Asian scholar has written a book on Kashmir. This section offers detailed reviews of the Jammu and Kashmir related books, interviews and profiles of the authors, besides, vital excerpts from the books written recently and in past.

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....

Haunting Cashmere Knot

The Last Knot unsettles precisely because it defies conventional narrative expectations. There is no tidy conclusion, no heroic triumph or daring escape but Shabir...

AG Noorani on Article 370

Eight years before the undoing of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, AG Noorani (1930-2024), an outstanding expert on border issues, the constitution...

Kashmir: Romance and Resilience

In her debut, Loal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land,  Kashmir filmmaker Mehak Jamal explores the power of love as an act...

The Biscoe Boy

The year he turned 90, Nazir Ahmad Khan decided to write his autobiography. On his next anniversary, the book was out and it is...

Kashmir: The Untold Story

Journalist and commentator, Humra Quraishi passed away at 70. Muhammad Nadeem reviews her Kashmir book that is based on her first-hand reportage during the...