Timeless Tales
Going through Neerja Mattoo's curated book of Kashmir short stories, Khalid Bashir Gura sees elements of both timeliness and timelessness in the collection
Some of...
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....
A Partition Postcard
Khann Ahmad Hilal reviews a trend-setting book on the partition that uses objects to revisit peoples’ memories of one of the worst happenings on...
Kashmir: A Lawrence Speech
Walter R Lawrence, one of the most popular British India officers in Kashmir, known commonly as Lawrence Sahab, was an authority on a region...
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...
A General Assessment
Former Army Chief, General NC Vij’s book The Kashmir Conundrum: The Quest for Peace in a Troubled Land, published by HarperCollins offers a ringside...
Hazratbal 1954
Roads and plenty of cars is a recent phenomenon. In this 1954 travelogue, Pearce Gervis explains how the huge floating gardens, rations and the...
Kashmir’s Canal Life 1954
Srinagar’s water bodies have historically remained a self-sustaining eco-system in which people lived, worked and thrived throughout. Life remained unchanged for a long time...
Kashmir’s Church Bells
The oldest Protestant Church over the Rustum Gari hill is being revived and renovated by the government under its smart city project. Constructed in...
Mind Medicine Matrix
Many years after a top intelligence officer served in Kashmir, his anthropologist daughter went to the US and wrote a book about the system...
The New Age Authors
Over the last year, more and more young writers in Kashmir are taking to self-publishing their books. While enough books may not be selling,...
Kashmir’s Islamic Architecture
Kashmir has produced a lot of literature on ancient architecture involving the Buddhist and Hindu period. The deficit about the medieval Muslim era was...
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...
A Distant Observation
The novel that Speaking Tree published early this year is a good attempt to tell the Kashmir story but could have been told better,...
‘Peace Follows Justice And Truth’
Farah Bashir, author of Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir that Harper Collins published this spring explains why she is restless and anxious...
