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...
The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra's The World After Gaza provides a penetrating critique of global power structures, situating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within broader historical and geopolitical contexts,...
Kashmir Books in 2024
Muhammad Nadeem offers a short introduction to the list of books that were published on Kashmir, its life and culture in 2024
In 2024, Kashmir’s...
Karan Singh On Hinduism
by Syed Shadab Ali Gillani
In The Eternal Religion: Glimpses of Hinduism, Dr Karan Singh provides a concise overview and interpretation of Hinduism, emphasising its...
