Two books released in autumn 2020 dedicate chapters that look at foreign policy effect on Kashmir and elements that caused chaos. The fire that consumed Kashmir after the Partition rages on today. Who incensed it? There is no one answer to this question, but it is scattered among bureaucratic decisions and wars โ both internal…
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…
โThere are some things that canโt be explained in this life,โ Menshiki went on, โand some others that probably shouldnโt be explained. Especially when putting them into words ignores what is most crucial.โ ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย โHaruki Murakami,…
โMy mother has not stopped talking about it.โ โ This is how Meena Kandasamy begins her soaring poem of a novel titled โWhen I Hit You Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wifeโ. At around 250 pages, the partially-autobiographical narrative is written in the first person and along with being a chronicle…
Beneath the modern metropolitan Delhi of today lie the remains of a royal Dehli which survived centuries. Rana Safvi, in her book, City of my Heart, digs up and translates some fragments of an era which could be attributed as magnanimous, more so, a golden period in the history of the Indian subcontinent. This book…
โIn the first minute following her death, Tequila Leilaโs consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore.โ In May of this year, Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation into Elif Shafakโs novels, particularly The Gaze (1999) and Three Daughters of Eve (2016), for charges of obscenity and promoting child abuse.…