Literature

Book: The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism (From The Cold War To The Present Day) Author: Nandita Haksar Print Length: xvi + 335 Genre: Non Fiction / Narrative Publisher: Speaking Tiger, New...

From once lively literary meetings where he rubbed shoulders with the who-is-who of his times to a small dark room in Srinagar, 90-year-old Ghulam...

by Bilal Handoo In the 1950s, a freshly appointed Urdu lecturer of Srinagar’s Sri Pratap College observed an intriguing episode recurring in his class. One...

Ghulam Nabi Shahid might not be a giant in the literary circles of Kashmir, but with his recent anthology ‘Ailan Jari Hai’, the writer...

Bilal Handoo Storytelling, says Zadie Smith (a British novelist), is a magical, ruthless discipline. If Smith’s words are any parameters, then Shahnaz Bashir’s The Half...

by Mir Liyaqat Nazir   Alam ha kar yaaad Azaad! Azaad! Kune SaTeh Wuchita yaad pawyee Madnowe. (One day the whole world will remember Azad Oh my beloved any moment...

Thirteen years after poet Agha Shahid Ali’s death Kashmir University finally dedicated a seminar to the ‘national poet’. But as things unfolded Bilal Handoo...

As the Persian language vanished from public life in Kashmir a huge amount of literature automatically became unreadable. A century later two scholars took...

Even as tens of books were published this season, Kashmir read only two books in huge numbers – one by British authors exposing the...

Kashmir has produced a number of legendary poets like Mehjoor and Dina Nath Nadim whose poems continue to rhyme in the hearts of many...

by Prof Suvir Kaul I do not know why Shahid—Bhaiya, as we knew him—chose to address to me “A Pastoral,” one of his poems of...

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...

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,...