Reintroducing Ghani Kashmiri
As the Persian language vanished from public life in Kashmir a huge amount of literature automatically became unreadable. A century later two scholars took...
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,...
For Shahid: a promise
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 Agha of English Ghazal
Manan Kapoor’s book on Agha Shahid Ali is a refreshing long story about the leading Kashmir poet whose indelible footprints in English literature will...
Tanha Ansari: A forgotten legend
Kashmir has produced a number of legendary poets like Mehjoor and Dina Nath Nadim whose poems continue to rhyme in the hearts of many...
Reliving the Past
Even as tens of books were published this season, Kashmir read only two books in huge numbers – one by British authors exposing the...
Malik, Associates Arrested In Pampore
KL Report
Srinagar
Police arrested the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, and other party leaders in Pampore, on Monday.
The police took Yasin...
The ‘Sacred’ Seminar
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...
Inking Catharsis
Ghulam Nabi Shahid might not be a giant in the literary circles of Kashmir, but with his recent anthology ‘Ailan Jari Hai’, the writer...
Kashmir lost its ‘Master of Ghazal’
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...
A Weary Traveller
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...