Remembering Kamil — by Majid Maqbool
A prolific and multidimensional writer, Amin Kamil proved to be one of the defining littérateurs of Kashmiri language.
Books
Book Review: Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? — by Shah Munnes Muneer
Four years after its release, “Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?” (Zubaan Books, 2016) remains relevant as an essential text that is read, re-read and reviewed, as is the case with this piece by Shah Munnes Muneer. Authored by five women researchers and activists, the book revisits and details the doc
Dictionary of Kashmiri Imponderabilia — by Onaiza Drabu
An “annexe” to a book can reveal the great detail and dedication with which such a book has been researched, elaborated and written. Such is the case with this excerpt from Onaiza Drabu’s The Legend of Himal and Nagrai (Spoken Tiger Books, 2019) that the author names the “Dictionary of Kashmiri Impo
Book Review: The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma (Meera Atkinson, Bloomsbury, 2017) — by Katie Lally
Via Creative Commons, here is Katie Lally's review of Meera Atkinson's "The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma" (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Reading Discourses of Power and Violence in Emerging Kashmiri Literature in English: The Collaborator and Curfewed Night — by Amrita Ghosh
Abstract: This essay studies two literary texts on Kashmir, The Collaborator (2011) by Mirza Waheed and Curfewed Night (2010) by Basharat Peer and analyzes the discourses of power and covert and overt forms of violence that the works present. It first contextualizes events from the last three years
Review of History of Armed Struggles in Kashmir by Rao Farman Ali — Inshah Malik
Professor Inshah Malik reviews Raio Farman Ali's "History of Armed Struggles in Kashmir" with an elaborate analysis and a brief yet detailed view of the different parts of the book.
Three Poems by Amirah Al Wassif from “For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate”
Amirah Al Wassif from Egypt introduces three poems from her recently published collection “For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate.” Amirah has published novels, short stories, poems and songs in Arabic, as well as certain works in English with certain poems translated into Spanish. The poems presented h