Review
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7.3KOf power, patriarchy, prison: A House without Windows
The protagonist being in a physically acrimonious marriage never enunciates a word. This speaks volumes about the helplessness and powerlessness of women...
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Sahitya spotlight: Did they just confuse Kashmiri criticism with chronology?
Authored as ‘biography’ and awarded as criticism, one of Sahitya winners lately failed to do justice with the spirit of the literary...
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Of half-truths and hegemony: The Problematic Genre
Kashmir has been alienated from itself and there’s not any particular entity or community to be blamed for this. Myriad narratives have...
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Why Agha Shahid Ali’s new biography is a loose bag of emotions
Shahid is shown like any other human being who has the zest to perfect his writing and reach the zenith like an...
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Ordinary violence in ‘Rumours of Spring’ by Farah Bashir
Girlhood is both confusing and aspirational. It is a time to figure out your place in the world as the margins that...
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SOS and Prxphecy are defining Koshur Hip-Hop’s sound with Czawul
Urban dictionary defines “sampling” as “the process of taking a brief segment of sound and using that sound to form another sound...
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Evolution of Alif: ‘Siyah’ pushes the boundaries of original music
Alif’s new album Siyah has dropped. Haal is the first of the four volumes of the Siyah series. For many, it may...
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Cups, Chronicles, and Conflict: In conversation with Alana Hunt
Cups of Nun Chai (2020), published by Yarbal Books, is an archive of stories that give a glance into the extraordinary lives...
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Tyndale Biscoe’s ‘Kashmir in sunlight and shade’, and the White Man’s Burden
A few weeks ago, in a desperate attempt to be productive in the midst of mind-numbing quarantine and never-ending lockdowns, I happened...
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Hosh Ha: Alif strikes gold in grave composition
In melancholic matrix of 2020, a melody amid myriad musical tracks struck the right chords with a poignant plot and captivating camera...
