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Winter 2011
Vol 4, Issue 4

Articles

Shubh Mathur

The view from afar:Nation-building

and its Consequences in the North-east

and Kashmir

Rekha Choudhary

Social Diversity, Political Divergence

and Challenges for Conflict Resolution

in Jammu and Kashmir

Nyla Ali Khan

Hindutva, Nationalism, and Fascism

Sohail Iqbal

Kathe Koar Woathe Zamane - A Tale of Times

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Kashmir Lit welcomes general submissions.

Email your articles, photo essays, reviews, creative works etc at: submissions@kashmirlit.org or editor@kashmirlit.org

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Call for Papers

Kashmir Ink Collective is publishing a collection of original essays titled Growing up Kashmiri slated for Fall 2012 publication (print & online).

Contributions are invited from interested writers, in shape of 1500 to 3000 worded essays.

The essays can include but not be limited to narratives of personal growing up experiences, issues of identity, conflict and vision for Kashmir.

Brief author bio and contact information should be included.

Please post your contributions to submissions@kashmirlit.org or editor@kashmirlit.org

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Winter 2010

Vol 3, Issue 3

Articles

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
The Shopian Rape Conundrum

Syed Zafar Mehdi Safvi
Afzal Guru's Execution

Nusrat Ara
Evicting Demons from my Land

Najeeba Syeed Miller
An Important Message for Contemporary Muslims

Sohail Iqbal
Conservation Confusion & Puchin Dumpokhta

Agha Shahid Ali
A Remembrance

Photo Essay
Yawar Nazir Kabli
Gunbattle
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Fall 2009

Vol II, Issue II

Seema Kazi

The Discontents of Democracy in Kashmir

Nyla Ali Khan

Islam, Women and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan - An Extract

Javeed Ahmed Mir

Kashmir Needs Attention

Fatima Sultan Syed

My Life My Kashmir

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Fall 2008

Vol I, Issue I

Interviews

Yasin Malik

Syed Ali Shah Geelani

Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat

Sanjay Kak

Book Review

My Kashmir: Conflict and Prospects for Enduring Peace by Wajahat Habibullah
Reviewer: Rafique Khan

Poetry

Sajid Iqbal

Long Drive to Freedom

Hakim Irfan Madroo

Humor in Mayhem

Ather Zia

Remembering Mughli, Human Rights Activist

Interview

Gautam Navlakha

Book Review

Mushtaq ul Islam Sikandar

Paintings

Naushad Gayoor

Pictures

Yawar Nazir Kabli

Summer in Kashmir

Poetry

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Interviews

Masood Hussain
famed Kashmiri artist talks about his art, Kashmir and life!

Suraya Abdullah
gives an insight into the persona of Shiekh Abdullah, her father - the much lionized, never humanized leader of Kashmir

Tariq Tapa
young filmmaker of Kashmiri-Jewish descent. Tariq talks about his debut film Zero Bridge which apart from the critical acclaim has got a number of "other" firsts to its credit.

Book Review
Mushtaq Ul Haq Sikander
Who Killed Karkare: The Real Face of Terrorism in India

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Book Review by Geeta Puri

Muslims of

India Since Partition by Balraj Puri

Book Review

by Syed Zafar Mehdi

Listening to Grasshoppers: Field notes on democracy" by Arundhati Roy

Shafi Ahmed

A Short Story

Naira Yaqoob

Heritage Special - Aali Masjid

Sohail Iqbal

Revisiting My Childhood and its Allied Fancies - Recollections of a Nostalgic Kashmiri

Yawar Nazir Kabli

Spring Splendour - Pictures

Shah Faisal

A Play - "The Lead to Freedom - A Dailogue"

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Saiba Varma
Healing Kashmir? The Emergence of Psychiatry as a Mode of Redressal

Nyla Ali Khan
Efficacy of the discourse of International Conferences on
local realities

Shaleen Kumar Singh
Diaspora Literature: A Testimony of Realism

Aarti Tikoo Singh
Kashmir As It Is

Afsana Rashid

The issue of special children in Kashmir conflict

S Zafar Mehdi Safvi
Paradise on boil

David Lepeska
The Rebirth of Kashmir

Afsana Rashid
They wait endlessly to be pronounced widows

Jehangir Rashid

Female Drug Addiction

Akh Shruk

(One Short Poem)

"Full of weeds is your field,
Enter with determination and deweed it
Bend you must in blazing heat
To deweed

your field:
He, who sows the seed, reaps the crop !"

Shiekh ul Alam

Translation:Prithvi Nath Razdan (Mahanoori)

Frozen Autumn

Painting by Naushad Gayoor

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Dal Lake, Summer 2010

Photo: Yawar Nazir Kabli

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A Peep out of the Past, painting & photo courtesy Masood Hussain

Indian Army personnel at a recent encounter (6th January 2010) in Srinagar city, Kashmir.

Photograph, Yawar Nazir Kabli

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A View of the Sarband Reservoir at Harwan

A Patch of Lotus Garden on Nageen Lake

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Kashmir Lit

online journal of Kashmiri and diasporic writing