HARUD CONTROVERSY
The first proposed litfest in Kashmir generated controversy amid concerns raised by a group of individuals and extreme Facebook-reaction to rumors of controversial writers...
Will Harud Douse The Chinars?
Arif Ayaz Parrey
Trust the poet to make a prophecy.
I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir,
and the shadowed routine of each vein
will almost be news,...
Memories of a Pandit boy
Siddhartha Gigoo wanted to write a novella, but could not stick to the word count. In a freewheeling interview with Ibrahim Wani in New...
In love with Kashmir
Justine Hardy is a journalist, a writer and an aid worker, working in the area of mental health in Kashmir. Aliya Bashir talks to...
Tales From The Valley
Kashmir’s narratives are coming to fore, with young writers writing for an international audience. After Basharat Peer’s acclaimed memoir Curfewed Night which talked of...
Monk makes it possible
Mehraj-din BhatBe it the Pressure of meeting deadlines, having very tight schedules or cupidity to work more to earn more, ‘inner tranquility’ is something...
Worth the read
Reading books is a highly beneficial activity, but not many students in Kashmir read books outside their syllabus. Ibrahim Wani reports the experiences of...
A Woman’s Ode
Naseem Shafaie, is the first Kashmiri poetess to win the Tagore Literary award. She has published two collections of her poems, which mostly reflect...
Novel rise
He felt quite low when he missed becoming a doctor by only two points. However, it proved a blessing in disguise. Waheed Mirza soon...
Facts of Resurgent Kashmir
Author: Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain Publishers: Kashmir Institute, Abi Guzar Price: Rs 135 To be released on April 19
Sara Wani
The book is a compilation...
Yet another jail account
by Sara Wani
Long ago a non-descript man used to visit a library I frequented, not in pursuit of knowledge but to visit his...
Jillawatan: A tale in exile
Author: Khaliq Parvez Publisher: Mirson Publications, Baramulla Rs.350, pp 356Wani MhIt was shock and awe when Fareeda Ghani, a greying old woman, who came...
A Concerned Visitor
A British diplomat’s wife, Brigid Keenan, visited Kashmir first in the 1980s and was offered a century-old guidebook. Later she wrote one herself. On...
A Peerless Peer
After the jury selected Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, as the Kashmiri of the year 2009, Kashmir Life invited Dr Haseeb A Drabu...
Bad Ideas Infect
by Siddiq Wahid
Ideas have histories. To understand an idea, it is important to understand its history. One such is the caricatured criticism that nothing...
