Seeing The Unseen
Ather Zia’s book on the disappearances in Kashmir published by University of Washington Press was re-published in India by Zubaan. It won 2020, Gloria Anzaldua,...
Moorcroft’s Kashmir Days
East India Company’s veterinarian and stud manager, William Moorcroft is the most referred author about early nineteenth century Kashmir. While living in Srinagar between...
Evolution of Kashmir Identity
Two Kashmir scholars revisited 3500 years of Kashmir’s distant past to generate a flawless academic narrative about how conquests, trade, cultural encounters and faiths...
Green Is The Colour Of Memory
In a serious attempt to deconstruct the Green and Memory of the poet Huzaifa Pandit, Shabir Mir discovers a stylish poet’s ornate craftsmanship of...
Witnessing The 1990 Crisis
Moosa Raza took over as Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Secretary at a time when Kashmir was changing fast. His memoir reveals newer things about...
The Kafan Cupboard
The Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir that Harper Collins published last month is a stirring account of a girl’s life in 1990s’...
‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand the...
With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s...
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...
Kashmir Gems
The costliest and most fascinating Sapphire from Padder Mountains continues to remain unmatched across the globe. Though the mining is halted for more than...
Indira in Dachigam
Scholar Congressman Jairam Ramesh is one of the few Indian politicians who have retained that Nehru style of politics, never give up writing. In...
On Akhter Mohiuddin
One of the Kashmir’s most prominent short-story writer Akhter Mohiuddin was tallest amongst his contemporaries, writes Ghulam Nabi Khayal
The history of fiction in the...
Khache Origins
When Kashmiris serving in the Ladakh desert were called Khachul or Khache, they were taking it as a slang. Historian David G Atwill in...
Kashmir 1823
British veterinarian, William Moorcroft (1767-1825), who played a key role in exploring Central Asia for the East India Company, spent a harsh winter in...
Understanding Pir Panchal
Officer scholar, KD Maini’s book on Pir Panchal that Gulshan Books published is a vital contribution in understanding the enigmatic ‘frontier’ of erstwhile Kashmir,...
Poetic Dreams
After the Kashmir situation orphaned her, the young girl from North Kashmir decided to become narrator to revive the reading habits in youth with...
