Written by the winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Saud Alsanousiโs Mama Hissa’s Mice is an apocalyptic and caustically funny novel about the power of friendship in a war-torn world. Mama Hissaโs Mice was a banned book in Kuwait, where the book is set, for over four years. Mama Hissa’s Mice,ย published originally in…
Personal Reflections on theย Novel by a Palestinian-American reader. A Woman is No Man is the novel that weaves together a three-generational Palestinian-American immigrant to the first-generation experience. The family happens to be Muslim. There is a scene in the book where Israa (one of the main characters in the novel) is told she does not…
Stephen Dobyns, writing in the New York Times Book Review, said, โno American poet writes better than Louise Glรผck, perhaps none can lead us so deeply into our nature.โย I cannot love what I canโt conceive, and you disclose virtually nothing… Part I Louise Glรผck is one of Americaโs most honoured contemporary poets. In 2020,…
Rather than delving into descriptions of landscapes or moments alien to us, resistance literature places itself squarely within the politics of the dispossessed. Much as I share an aversion to classical English literature, as an inhabitant of one of the formerly suppressed spaces, itโs hard to avoid an evocative line or two from it. In…
To tell the truth, on the face of a tyrant, is a brave act. This book is an act of revelation. Gowhar’s book is a result of more than a decade of his journalistic career. Research and his personal experience of Kashmir makes him own the narrative. Authoritative and emotional, Kashmir โ Rage and Reason…
โAzadiโ contains several essays in which Roy gives us a powerful but partial look at the situation in Kashmir. Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. is a collection of essays written by Arundhati Roy through the eyes of a novelist. These essays were written between 2018 and 2020, two years that in India have felt like two…
Rave reviews apart, veterinarian Shabir Ahmad Mirโs debut novel is poetry without rhyme. The Plague Upon Us is not about the rampaging coronavirus crippling the world and making billions captives in their homes, including 8 million lockdown-stricken Kashmiris. Itโs a plague that has consumed the life in Kashmir since 1947. This is a story of…
In the year of Imperial sunset and rise of the new power structure in South Asia, the valleyโs versifiers flocked together to float a literary movement. Years later, the movement remains a contested legacy between Left and Right. Throughout his eventful career, Ghulam Nabi Khayal wore many hats. As a writer, he had his brushes…
A season of death, a season of loss; our buds rest into coffins, our blossoms have the scent of scars. With a call for Namaz, there’s a greater call to visit graveyards. Decades of violence; an abode of learners, a valley blooming with the hues of knowledgeโ now cradles in the darkness of ignorance. From…
New Delhi: Mirza Waheed speaks the way he writes: with care. Ask this Kashmiri novelist a question, he looks a tad flustered. He averts his eyes, fidgets with his fingers and weighs his words before he finally answers the query. I spend time writing my sentences, I donโt want to hurry. And I am not a…