Book Reviews

An Invisible Minority: Alienation, solidarity, inter-communal cooperation among Sikhs in Kashmir.

Komal JB Singh’s book asserts that the history of Kashmir is incomplete without the voices of its Sikhs.

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‘The Hindi Heartland’: An indispensable guide to engaging with India’s most influential region

Author Ghazala Wahab examines the region that exercises disproportionate influence while remaining mired in paradox…

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Rich in scholarship, Hamdani’s book is an astonishing archive that gathers Srinagar’s urban and cultural past into a vibrant, living story.

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Fragments of a life in theatre: M.K. Raina’s memoir of Kashmir and beyond. The theatre veteran offers a left-liberal Kashmiri Pandit’s perspective on theatre and activism, but leaves gaps in the broader Kashmiri narrative.

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‘The World With Its Mouth Open’: Ordinary experiences reflect the absurdity of Kashmir’s reality.

Some of the eleven stories in the collection present an ‘allegory of loss’, hinting at a metaphor of struggle without ends.

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Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir

A new perspective on the life of a man who rose from obscurity to become one of Kashmir’s greatest leaders, only to become a casualty of his egomania.

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