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...
‘The Day of Exile’
“You may embarrass yourself. Writers usually take years before starting to write this book,” Deeksha, the daughter, told her father Bill K Koul, when...
Self-publishing Errors
As more and more writers resort to self-publishing their works, it damages the works and the process of credible publishing. While reviewing a self-published...
Identity In Early Kashmir
A trained cultural historian, Dr Shonaleeka Kaul is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and...
1984: Why Indira Dismissed Farooq?
Considered to be the watershed events in the democratic history of Kashmir, hugely elected Dr Farooq Abdullah led government was dismissed as 13 lawmakers...
Interlocutor Tales
At the peak of 2010 unrest, Dr Manmohan Singh government appointed three interlocutors led by Editor Dilip Padgaonkar, with academic Prof Radha Kumar and...
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...
Silk Since 1846
Kashmir has seen various ups and downs in managing the silk as an industry and an economy for the state and the people. Here...
Book Within
A little girl and her father met an accident and she knew many months later that he did not survive. Fighting depression and pursuing...
Behind Broken Glasses
Inspired by the seminal work of James Joyce, Feroz Rather creates magic in his book The Night of Broken Glass. Shabir Mir sees the...
Baba Chamliyal
A shrine of a popular saint was caught in the time wrap and is literally located on the Redcliff Divide since 1947. But the...
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...
The Courage of Choice
Doctors Girija Dhar and Syed Naseer Ahmad Shah were one of Kashmir’s most talked about couples because they retained their faiths after their marriage....
Inking An Accord
The intellectual Congressman Jairam Ramesh, when not in power, writes books. His sixth book in four years is about P N Haksar, a top...
Re-engaging With History
Congress set up a committee to read Prof Saifuddin Soz’s book as its release triggered a sort of crisis on TV over Patel’s Kashmir...
