Author Fawzia Afzal-Khan, 2020, 252 pages, Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford UP Reviewer Dr. Shazia Malik Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan’s book Siren Songs: Understanding Pakistan through its Women Singers is a wonderful feminist intervention into a conventionally masculinist discourse, depicting Pakistani women music performers’ dilemmas, resistances, and identities intricately connected to the political, … Read more →
Review: The Chill in the Bones
Written by Wani NazirPoetry, 2022, Book Street Publications, ISBN:978-93-91317-50-8, Pages 126, price INR. 200Reviewer Ayaz Rasool Nazki Kashmiri poets and writers never shied away from languages that were essentially foreign; the languages other than the native language – Kashmiri. At least two streams of intellectual expression have always existed, one … Read more →
Wayfaring by Tikuli Dogra
Reviewer: Shabir Ahmed Mir “Wayfaring” published by The Leaky Boot press (2017, 136 pages) is the second collection of poems by Tikuli Dogra. The collection is divided into seven asymmetric sections. Despite the thematic difference between the sections as well as within the sections, Tikuli Dogra emerges as a poet … Read more →
Dirty sands of time, a review of ‘The Night of Broken Glass’ by Feroz Rather
Adil Bhat Underneath the violence, the festering heart of Kashmiri society Fiction has the power to transform our perceptions of peoples and places. Feroz Rather’s The Night of Broken Glass is such a book; it hits you right in the gut. The author peeks into the dark, festering heart of Kashmiri … Read more →
Love in the Time of Camera
Kashmir Lit News Desk We introduce a new poetry book written by Kashmiri poet Mubashir Karim. “Love in the Time of Camera has a strong appetite for love that transforms the modern Kashmiri life – from Mehjoor Nagar to 90 Feet, Heavy Traffic to Mobile Phones, Unmarked Graves to Surveillance – … Read more →
Green is the Colour of Memory, Poetry Collection
A new book on poetry titled, “Green is the Colour of Memory” by Huzaifa Pandit is out. Kashmir Lit is happy to share an excerpt from the foreword by Nabina Das. She mentions: “This poet is from the mountains, valleys, springs, and rivers that have seen prolonged dark nights and not the dazzle … Read more →
Kashmir in Comparative Perspective
Book Name: Kashmir in Comparative Perspective: Democracy and Violent Separatism in India Author: Sten Widmalm, Publisher: Routledge Curzon, Date of Publication: 2002, Pages: 226 Reviewer: Touseef Mir The outbreak of armed insurgency against the Indian State from 1989 in Kashmir and its implications for the security of the South … Read more →
Hijras of Kashmir: a marginalized form of personhood
An excerpt from Aijaz Ahmed Bund’s book based on the transgender people in Kashmir and their experiences of life. The twenty-four interviews and ethnographic accounts carried in this book open a new window into this mythical and marginalized community in the region. The reality of being a transgender is … Read more →
Afzal Guru’s Last Days
Indian journalist Sunetra Choudhury’s book on prison tales of India’s 13 famous persons offers the first credible account of Afzal Guru’s last three years in Tihar and his walk to the gallows. This excerpt is from Kobad Ghandy’s account, who Afzal became friends with in jail. When the Jawaharlal Nehru University … Read more →
In a Future April, A Novel
Author Paramita Ghosh’s debut novel “In a Future April” is a political allegory on a rather south Asian obsession — a national liberation struggle and its contradictions. The overarching ‘date’ or ‘time’ in the novel is The Plebiscite which everyone is moving towards or rebelling against. The novel tries to … Read more →
History of Armed Struggles in Kashmir
Author Rao Farman Ali Reviewer Arshi Javed Publisher Jay Kay Books, Kashmir On 8 July – just about a month from now – it will be a year since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani, an event which plunged the Valley into one of its worst phases … Read more →
Jaffna Street: Tales of Life, Death, Betrayal and Survival in Kashmir
Excerpt from “The Saint of Shalimar” With these armies comprising Pathans, Poonchis and Mirpuris knocking at his gates, the story—making the rounds of Srinagar street—goes that the Dogra monarch sought an audience with Meerak Shah so as to seek some divine intervention to ward off the looming cataclysmic scenario awaiting … Read more →
Secrets of the Kashmir Valley
Secrets of the Kashmir Valley: My journey through the conflict between India and Pakistan Author: Farhana Qazi Publisher: Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd. New Delhi, India Year of Publication: 2016 Pages: 308 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 9788172210762 Reviewed by Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Kashmir Issue and its … Read more →
Munnu A Boy from Kashmir: Story telling at its most graphic
Munnu A Boy from Kashmir By Malik Sajad Fourth Estate London Book Review by Freny Manecksha The frontispiece entitled Family Portrait has a sketch of five creatures that appear to have human characteristics but why do they sport antlers and elongated faces resembling deer? Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist and strong advocate … Read more →
“Shabistan-e-Wajood” (The Ordeal of a Journalist)
Authored by Maqbool Sahil Reviewed by Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Publisher: Meezan Publishers, Srinagar Kashmir Year of Publication: 2009 | Price: Rs 350 | Pages: 355 Jail Life is altogether a different world where only the supposed guilty are confined for punishment. The word Punishment seems harsh to the … Read more →
Prisoner No. 100: An Account Of My Nights And Days In An Indian Prison Gowhar Fazili
Book Title: Prisoner No. 100: An Account Of My Nights And Days In An Indian Prison Author: Anjum Zamarud Habib Published : 2011 by Zubaan Books Reviewer: Gowhar Fazili Prisoner No. 100 is Anjum Zamarud Habib’s personal account of five years in jail, nearly all of them as an under … Read more →
Shehr-e-Kashmir: The Wealth of SRINAGAR (INTACH Srinagar Chapter)
By Mehmood-ur-Rashid It is not a book; an architecture of sorts. An architecture where labor undergirds love and discipline holds the weight of purpose. It’s like the tiered roof of a typical Kashmiri Ziyarat where each layer falls on the other ‘like the stanzas of a poem.’ May be it’s … Read more →
Jale-ae Watan (Banished to Exile)
Reviewer: Mushtaq Ul Haq Sikander Book: Jale-ae Watan (Banished to Exile) Author: Khaliq Parvez Publisher: Mir Son Publications, Baramulla Kashmir. Year of Publication: Not Mentioned Pages: 356, Price: 350 Indian Rupees The Politics in Kashmir was shaped by the events in the wake of partition of the subcontinent; hence partition … Read more →
Who Killed Karkare? The Real Face of Terrorism in India
Author: S.M Mushrif Publisher: Pharos Media & publishing Pvt Ltd, New, New Delhi, India Year Of publication: 2009 Price: Rs 300, Pages: 319 Terrorism, Islam and Muslim appear to be synonymous for the mainstream corporate media who never lose any opportunity to reinforce this myth which gained enormous currency after … Read more →
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy
By Syed Zafar Mehdi Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy Author: by Arundhati Roy Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd Price: INR 499 Dedicated to those who have learned to divorce hope from reason, Booker prize winner author Arundhati Roy’s latest seminal work ‘Collection of her fiery essays deftly … Read more →
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