Literature
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2.8KLiving like a tippler pigeon in the aftermath of loss
Published by Neem Tree Press in July 2023, Safinah Danish Elahi’s The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon explores the breakdown of...
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4.2K‘Lalwun naar’: The mood and music of Rasul Mir’s poetry
Mir is faithful to the title of “leader of descriptive writers” bestowed on him by Rahman Rahi. Dr Shiban K Kachru’s translation...
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2.8KBy endorsing Action over Idea, did Iqbal downplay role of contemplative thinking?
In this critique, the writer without devaluing a thinker of the stature of Iqbal, is opening space for debate and discussion around...
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4.3KOf Asrar, Rumuz, and Reconstruction—Scientific mind behind religious thought
A critical evaluation of Muhammad Iqbal’s “The Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam” An insight into the writings of Iqbal and a...
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6.3KReconstructing Lalla: Beyond miracle and mysticism
A tapasvin into the world came I, A Bodha illuminated my path to Self. Lal Ded, also known as Lalleswari Devi or...
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2.0K‘Force of nature’: How a bibliophile found his disappeared library in Kashmir arcade
Without getting into the background details, he shelled out his savings and reclaimed his lost library. The world of written words is...
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4.3KRehman Rahi’s language legacy has a new heir-apparent and he has a book too
Whatever literature, small or big, is wrought out in Kashmir, is largely either in English or occasionally in Urdu. Not many writers...
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8.7KOf Vakhs and Shruks: The gnostic exchange between two Kashmiri mystics
“If Lal Ded roasts our hearts on the fire of love, then Nund Reshi does nothing less than move a mountain.” Lal...
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4.9KHonorifics in retrospect—why western branding is bad for Kashmiri literature
From Rasool Mir, being dubbed as ‘The John Keats’ of Kashmir, to Mehjoor as ‘The Wordsworth’ and Abdul Ahad Azad as ‘The...
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4.6KDeath as meditation on life: Rishism in Kashmir
Rishism in Kashmir was an opportunity for women to find new ways of spiritual and literary expression. Kashmir’s indigenous Sufi order, Rishism...
