Literature | Free Press Kashmir

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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Interview

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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Reflections

When Akhtar Mohiuddin’s Fiction became Reality: “I saw a Kashmiri kid crying for ‘Minty’ Gun”

Decades after the legendary Kashmiri writer Akhtar Mohiuddin mapped the K-situation through his staggering short story—Aatankwadi, similar events unfolded in Kashmir, making...

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In Depth

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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Narrative

A poetic rendezvous: In conversation with the Bard of Old City

As long as there has been war, there’ve been poets and writers, translating the debris and loss of the battlefield into a...

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Poetry

Poem: The Dungeon Republic

Beloved belligerence And this prevailing forlorn Strident are our streets: “Anybody? Anyone?” City is grief… Its viziers have fled. A few...

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Poetry

Poem: A hounded heaven

Dawn to dusk, They scram, In the hounded heaven, In effect, a hell incarnate. One gone, Another comes, The number ticks… Since...

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Literature

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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Language

Renowned Kashmiri poet Prof. Rehman Rahi bags maiden ‘Sharf-e-Saqafat’ Award

Jammu: Renowned Kashmiri poet and the recipient of Padma Shree, Prof. Rehman Rahi has been chosen for the first Sharf-e-Saqafat Award, the J&K Academy...