Monk makes it possible
Mehraj-din BhatBe it the Pressure of meeting deadlines, having very tight schedules or cupidity to work more to earn more, ‘inner tranquility’ is something...
Worth the read
Reading books is a highly beneficial activity, but not many students in Kashmir read books outside their syllabus. Ibrahim Wani reports the experiences of...
A Woman’s Ode
Naseem Shafaie, is the first Kashmiri poetess to win the Tagore Literary award. She has published two collections of her poems, which mostly reflect...
Novel rise
He felt quite low when he missed becoming a doctor by only two points. However, it proved a blessing in disguise. Waheed Mirza soon...
Facts of Resurgent Kashmir
Author: Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain Publishers: Kashmir Institute, Abi Guzar Price: Rs 135 To be released on April 19
Sara Wani
The book is a compilation...
Yet another jail account
by Sara Wani
Long ago a non-descript man used to visit a library I frequented, not in pursuit of knowledge but to visit his...
Jillawatan: A tale in exile
Author: Khaliq Parvez Publisher: Mirson Publications, Baramulla Rs.350, pp 356Wani MhIt was shock and awe when Fareeda Ghani, a greying old woman, who came...
A Concerned Visitor
A British diplomat’s wife, Brigid Keenan, visited Kashmir first in the 1980s and was offered a century-old guidebook. Later she wrote one herself. On...
A Peerless Peer
After the jury selected Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, as the Kashmiri of the year 2009, Kashmir Life invited Dr Haseeb A Drabu...
Bad Ideas Infect
by Siddiq Wahid
Ideas have histories. To understand an idea, it is important to understand its history. One such is the caricatured criticism that nothing...
Nehru’s Love for Kashmir
Edwina-Nehru relationship and its impact on J&K’s fate is a favourite debate for historians, but India does not seem ready to watch what it...
South Asian Conflicts and the Drug Trade
by Siddiq Wahid
Deepthroat was the colourful name assigned to one the key figures in the emblematic Watergate scandal that brought the United States’ Nixon...
‘A plague on both their houses’
Career diplomat and one of the many South Asian experts in US Howard B Schaffer’s just released book ‘The limits of influence’: America’s role...
A river chronicled
Jhelum has remained central to the identity of Kashmir, even worshipped at times. While chroniclers and hagiographers produced accounts of dynasties and warlords, the...
Remembering Shahid
Amitav Ghosh referred to Agha Shahid Ali as the ‘closest that Kashmir had to a national poet’. Recently America’s prestigious and largest publishing house,...
