Literature
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2.1KThe 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...
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November 3
He would talk to the imaginary audience, giving them lessons on existentialism and the state of despair in life. Of his own...
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Nobel Prize in Literature to be announced on October 5
Stockholm: “The Swedish Academy has decided to announce the name of this year’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate on Thursday, October 5, at 1:00...
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Surveillance – A short story
In the story we intently listen to a cafeteria manager, in a besieged University in Srinagar, the summer capital of the valley, who is...
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Finding Nasir two thousand kilometres away from Kashmir
It went on forever, until I could take it no more, the persistent banging of the door and a relentless hammering in...
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The Fugitive Sunshine: Reading Kashmir in an aroma
The more I look, the more I see. The more I read these poems, the more I find to admire. Poetry has...
