Nehru’s First Speech On Kashmir
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last week, commented that had Sardar Patel been in the driving seat, “entire Kashmir would have been ours”, has triggered...
Understanding Sheikh
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has been Kashmir’s enigmatic and complex political leader who was as much the master of his persona as he was the...
Past of the Future
By the weave of the book, the author has reclaimed the past of his generation. Does the weft of his narrative frame the future...
Srinagar 1868
An Assistant Surgeon in Her Majesty’s 36th Foot, John Frederick Foster (1839-1869) spent almost a quarter in 1868 summer in Kashmir, primarily for health...
‘Islam is Neither Against Rationality nor Democracy’
Tauseef Ahmad Parray's latest book, which Oxford University Press published, promises to be a ground-breaking exploration of Islam and democracy in the twenty-first century. In an...
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...
Mankind’s Kashmir Arrival
Kashmir is one of the few locations across South Asia that still retains tell-tale details of the pre-historic settlements starting from the Neolithic age,...
A Lake Exploration
A cultural anthropologist gives time to Kashmir’s famed Dal Lake and generates an impressive piece of literature, writes Insha Shirazi
Michael J Casimir's The Cultural...
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...
Herbs and Health
Not a very long ago in Kashmir, most of the diseases were being treated by flood supplements in which fruits, herbs and vegetables were...
“When we seek to introspect dialectics of any process, both its negative and positive...
Dr Mir Khalid was born into a prominent civil services’ family in Safakadal, Srinagar. His clinical research has appeared in the British Journal of...
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...
A Servant’s ‘Truth Matter’
Reviewing Rassul Galwan’s autobiography, Onaiza Drabu sees the book seemingly lost most of its soul during editing that reduced it to a sort of...
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 Azaad Memoir
For nearly half a century, Ghulam Nabi Azad rose from the ranks to the heights in Congress and the government in Delhi. He became...
