Medieval Kashmir’s Historians
Kashmir boasts of more than a millennium of recorded history. In every era, somebody was writing about the individuals and the institutions of power...
Costly Land Reforms
In the history of Kashmir, land to tiller is the biggest intervention that lacks parallels. But these proved very costly for Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah,...
Whither Governance?
A young academic has revisited the state of governance in Jammu and Kashmir between 1948 and 1989 and attempted to understand how the conflict...
Juvenile Justice: A Critique
A report based on the first-hand study suggests the Jammu and Kashmir’s criminal justice system is utterly inadequate in addressing the alienation of Kashmir’s...
Srinagar Fires 1892
Kashmir was always interesting and enigmatic. Charles Adolphus Murray, the 7th Earl of Dunmore was in Srinagar in May 1892, when it went up...
Kashmir’s First Preacher
In this brief write-up, Dr Darakhshan Abdullah offers an idea about Islam’s emphasis on preaching while offering basic details about Kashmir’s first missionary preacher,...
Srinagar in 1900
In the concluding part of the 2-part series excerpted from Duke’s Guidebook to Kashmir, Joshu M Duke, the military doctor, who had spent almost...
Kashmir From The Hills
Around 1900, a British surgeon during his long tenure in Kashmir wrote Duke’s Guidebook to Kashmir, primarily aimed at European tourists. His description of...
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...
Cashmere Misgovernment
A British army officer Robert Thorp (1838-1868) was the son of a Kashmiri mother and a British colonel. While visiting Kashmir, he was disturbed...
State Subject: The Evolution Story
Right now when Kashmiri’s entire political class has launched a serious campaign to preserve the demographic composition of J&K, Dr Nitin Chandel details how...
Love’s True Colours
by Shabir Mir
True Colours by Sufi Auqib, a Kashmir based young writer, is the latest addition to the list of self-published Kashmiri writing in...
Writing For Kids
Once recognized, writers usually avoid writing about the children. This is the key factor for limitations in the Kashmiri literature for children. Aaqib Hyder...
Sheikh and Plebiscite
Biography of Kashmir’s tallest leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has certain references that M J Aslam failed to get a plausible explanation from the history
Sheikh...
Women Politics In Conflict
Contrary to the general belief that Kashmiri women have remained insulated from the politics and continue to remain the victims of conflict, Shabir Mir...