Literature

Amitav Ghosh referred to Agha Shahid Ali as the ‘closest that Kashmir had to a national poet’. Recently America’s prestigious and largest publishing house,...

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...

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

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

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 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...

Ayoub Sabir, a retired head master, who has written twenty books in three languages, is a known satirist. He tells Heena Muzzafar that art...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63) was a British barrister who played first class cricket 11 times between 1819 and 1845. The first Englishman who has...

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...