Valley Warming
Arshid Malik
Tucked inside the warm comfort of a heavy quilt (kinds that are only found in Kashmir) is the penultimate stance of life in Kashmir during winters, or to be more accurate and fact-full...
Own the orphans
Arshid Malik
The last more than two and a half decades of Kashmir have been strewn with violence in which scores of thousands of young and old men, women and children have been murdered in...
Down The Memory Lane
by Arshid Malik
Pre-90s Kashmir was an altogether different place. I have very fond memories of that era. The first shock I received, as the era ended, was the shutting down of our school which...
Shadow of the Floods
by Arshid Malik
I am writing this only to reach out to thousands around, broken just like me by the 2014 floods. There is hope as long as we believe.
Flashback September 2014: There was an...
Reading Into Writing
Arshid Malik
Recently a publisher friend of mine arrived in my office to enquire of me. He had come with a handful of his publications. Over tea and some cookies we discussed issues, ranging from...
Losing it all
Arshid Malik
Kashmir has gone through very turbulent times and the people here have been subjected to oppression for ages now. But it is inspiring and at the same time very flummoxing to know that...
The Idea of Kashmir
Arshid Malik
Kashmir, as of now, belongs to India through the sole act of brutal force while the “slogans of freedom” of Kashmiris sound hoarse abetting a likelihood, which borders on the lines of linear...
Tentacles of Suppression
Arshid Malik
What we, as a generation of youngsters, went through in the era of the 90s is beyond description. Yes, words defy expression of the kind of suppression we went through. It was tarrying...
Pakistan’s Changing Idioms
Arshid Malik
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, a Pakistani journalist, activist and filmmaker has scored for the second time at the Oscars. Her first Oscar was for the documentary “Saving Face” (2012) and her latest is for...
India’s “inbox” is full
Arshid Malik
During school days we were taught that democracy is a government “for the people, by the people and of the people” and this definition was the simplest one could have as concerns a...
Consumerism to Corruption
Arshid Malik
The levels of corruption run so deep in J&K that it is quite difficult to discern what is honest, decent earning and what is brought home by way of public plunder and loot....
Blood and Stone
Arshid Malik
A Cold January Day
Mythologies about a mythological kingdom of Cashpeer was replete with mythological instances of cannibal giants who were known to have lived in the lake abounding there who would come out...
Dynastic Politics
Arshid Malik
With the death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, another spate of dynastic rule is in the making, right to the alley of the Abdullahs. Characteristically, family rule is not a good thing for any...
