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...
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...
Kashmir’s Bakshi Era
In her book, A Fate Written On Matchboxes, Hafsa Kanjwal, a Kashmir-origin American scholar, revisits the structure and systems in the decade-old rule by...
Tamed, Not Caged
Chitralekha Zutshi’s book, Sheikh Abdullah – The Caged Lion of Kashmir is by far the most perceptive work on Abdullah but is short of...
Pakistan: Menon Memories
Thirty years after The Hindu journalist Kesava Menon returned from his Pakistan posting, his memoir published by Speaking Tiger Books is a fresh commentary...
