Literature
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531Short Story: Pangs of separation, and SOPs
The thunder shakes the earth—as if the firmament bawled like a half-widow. Mushtaq Ahmad from Srinagar’s Hazratbal sat firmly on the couch...
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Short Story: Kill the Fiscal
With new pledges and old harangues, unionists have restarted election campaigning for the upcoming polls in the valley. Relying heavily on undisguised...
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Dusted after ‘Mass Awakening’: Downfall of Progressive Writers’ Movement in Kashmir
Boston Tea Party or Renaissance might be regular classroom lectures in Kashmir, but its own native movements hardly find any mention in...
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Of memories, linguistics and literature: The House on the River
Shoeb Hamid is an unconventional scribe-storyteller from Srinagar—who doesn’t seem to carry the typical author’s air. His mannerism makes him street-smart with...
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The last Kashmiri guide of VS Naipaul: ‘The writer was brutally honest, generous’
When English singer-songwriters Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were spotted holidaying in Kashmir in the early sixties, Hotel Leeward in Dal Lake...
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Of travelling hearts and contemporary poets: Reading Sonnet Mondal
Poetry being a mellow saga of traveling hearts and dimensions has pushed poets over centuries to travel and traverse across borders to...
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Short Story: An Incredible Vision
When fifty-year-old, strong-willed, Ms Khawabi, a politician from the powerful Khawabi family, decided to contest the Presidential elections in 2047, she had...
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Through the lens of Kashmiri literature: Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry 16 years after his demise
“We shall meet again, in Srinagar, by the gates of the Villa of Peace, our hands blossoming into fists till the soldiers...
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The Shaahid and the Shahiid: A tribute by Nawaz Gul Qanungo
Half a decade before the Jawaharlal Nehru University would erupt and subsequently come under fire for hosting a talk about The Country Without...
