A General Diary
Lt Gen JKS Dhillon’s autobiography that Penguin published earlier this year offers one side of the Kashmir story. It offers a peephole view of...
Vital Memories
A book by an Islamabad based journalist Qasim Sajad has added various details to events of kashmir’s contemporary history. But the beauty of the...
Love’s True Colours
by Shabir Mir
True Colours by Sufi Auqib, a Kashmir based young writer, is the latest addition to the list of self-published Kashmiri writing in...
Naipaul’s Kashmir
Trinidad born Indian origin Nobel Laureate Sir V S Naipaul, who died on August 11, 2018, in London was one of the greatest English...
Kashmir 1783
British traveller and East India Company official, George Forster (died 1792) is the first Englishman who journeyed from India through Central Asia to Russia....
Kashmir Stories
Four Kashmiri literary scholars joined their heads and hands to unveil the literary genius of Hari Krishna Kaul for the twenty-first-century generation. The translation...
Do Not Wait For UN
Academic Prof Saifuddin Soz has been in politics for a long time. Basically, from NC, he joined Congress and became a central minister. A...
Medieval Kashmir’s Historians
Kashmir boasts of more than a millennium of recorded history. In every era, somebody was writing about the individuals and the institutions of power...
Damaras: An Introduction
The Western scholars to whom Kashmir shall perpetually remain indebted for their extensive research on history and culture of the Vale include Sir Marc...
The Ground Report
Khalid Bashir Gura reviews Anuradha Bhasin’s book that chronicles the Kashmir happenings after the reading down of Article 370 and 35A in August 2019
On...
Books on Kashmir in 2023
Kashmir continues to be the most written-about region. Though the books focusing on Kashmir lack too many native voices, the 2023 collection is huge...
Of Awards, Events and Assimilation
Awards and events for art and culture must reflect the sensibilities of civil society, not further the ideological agenda of a government, says Haseeb...
Begar In Kashmir History
The forced labour was part of Kashmir’s centuries’ old economic exploitation that killed generations in the service of the despots. Muzamil Rashid explains the...
Epidemic Killed Indus Valley Civilization?
Researchers have not been able to locate a single major factor for the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization other than waterborne disease. Cholera, David...
Kashmir’s Rural Diversity
For a modern researcher, the Kashmir periphery might offer homogeneity of culture and economy. The reality is that the countryside has always exhibited a...
