Books
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72Between memory and mountains: The soldier who began listening for stories
In a candid conversation with Free Press Kashmir’s Arshid Bashir Akhoon, Brigadier Sushil Tanwar discusses his transition from military service to writing,...
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437A book of silence, longing and souls: Reviewing ‘The Book Shop of Tehran’
Maria Jan’s self-published novel explores love, mysticism, surrender and the unseen connections between souls, while occasionally leaving the material world too far...
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345The devastating weight of guilt in Albert Camus’ ‘The Fall’
Through the confession of a fallen Parisian lawyer, Camus forces readers to confront vanity, cowardice and the uncomfortable distance between the ideals...
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724Shelf by shelf: Inside Kashmir’s sweeping search for forbidden pages
A dispute over two slim volumes on regional history has set off what officials call the largest academic content review in the...
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2.3KBook review: Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet is not a typical book with a story, characters, or plot. Instead, it is a collection of...
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1.6KThe art of living after wanting to die
Some books do more than tell a story; they challenge the way life itself is viewed, and Veronika Decides to Die is...
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2.1KCity of Kashmir: Srinagar, a popular history–Review by Muhammad Nadeem
It is a peculiar kind of heartbreak to love a city that exists more in the past than in the present. You...
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1.7KWhy writers must learn to read differently
There is a moment familiar to every reader when a novel closes upon itself and leaves behind a quiet echo. We admire...
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2.0KExamining Asif Tariq Bhat’s Kashmiri epic in Faheem Ahmad’s precise translation
In the changing world of Kashmiri literature, the passage from oral tradition to the written novel has often been a tool for...
