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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.

MK Raina: A Memoir, A History

MK Raina's has been Kashmir's foremost theatre artist. His memoir, Before I Forget tell a long tale of Kashmir and Kashmiris in sunlight and...

Kashmir: A Lakefront Book Fair

Srinagar hosted an impressive 9-day book festival on the shores of the famed Dal Lake. Muhammad Nadeem spent almost all evenings shuttling between book...

AG Noorani: Death of An Institution

Mumbai-based lawyer and scholar loved Kashmir, its people, politics, food and culture. But that was just a part of what AG Noorani (September 16,...

Gender In Majoritarian Society

Communist leader and rights activist, Brinda Karat’s book on the state and status of women during India’s more than decade-long BJP rule is a...

Kashmir in Tarikh-i-Rashidi

Kashmir was conquered by an early Mughal and ruled for over a decade. While harshly governing the Vale in the sixteenth century, he wrote...

Kashmir: A Sikh Narrative

A school teacher writes a book on the challenges the microscopic Sikh community faced in the vale post-partition and is an addition to the...

A Veteran’s Kashmir Ventures

An Australian teacher gave up his profession and started trekking into the Himalayas till he fell for Kashmir. These off-track treks led him to...

How al-Fatah Was Dismantled?

Before retiring from service during the tumultuous 1990s, IPS officer Ali M Watali played a pivotal role in supervising the arrest of numerous militants...
Near Khanqah-e-Moala British colourist William Carpenter Junior (1818-1899) has drawn this picture during one of his three visits to Kashmir. the most Known was in 1853.

Medieval Kashmir: Texts and Contexts

Medieval Kashmir witnessed massive shifts in the region’s faith, politics and economy. Credit goes to historian Prof Mohibbul Hasan for offering Kashmir a book...

Wisdom for Every Path

Phrama specialist Dr Arshad Khuroo encapsulates a journey through life's lessons, seamlessly weaving personal anecdotes with timeless wisdom. Babra Wani read his book which...

Taking Rumi to the West

Not every line of Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi translated into non-Persian languages might carry the same wisdom as the thirteenth-century Persian Sufi put in his...

The Heart of India’s Constitutional Values

Khan Muzammil goes through Rajmohan Gandhi’s Fraternity: Constitutional Norm and Human Need and Nalini Ranjan’s Secularism: How India Reshaped The Idea to understand the...

Deconstructing The Ayodhya Controversy

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay's The Demolition, the Verdict, and the Temple examines the Ayodhya controversy, highlighting its profound societal impacts, writes Syed Shadab Ali Gillani The...

Mahmud Gami: An Introduction

University of Kashmir professor, Mufti Mudasir is discovering great Kashmiri poets for the English readership. After translating Gani Kashmiri, and Mehmud Gami, he was...

Kashmir’s Feudal Masters

In Kashmir’s history, the invaders, despots and autocrats worked in close association with the feudal lords to control the land and the people, a...