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A short story - The Red Silken Pyjamas
Nabir Shaala was already well over three score and ten. For the most part of his life, he had darned and continued doing this even then. On the Jehlum bank, overlooking the river, he owned as small three storeyed wood planked shack of a house. He invariably sat on the verandah, working, wearing thick glasses fixed in place with twisted yarn, on his nose shrilling out his favourite song: mash bo chhivireethas raati ke pyali hano And sometimes another song: tsininy poshi yangi me dyinthmas tan...
“The Tiger ladies” - A Book review
The excellence and simplicity with which the complex subjects are dealt with is simply mind blowing. The simple and pristine life of Kashmir valley as an upper elite class Pandit woman sees it, is a heaven of its own kind. The reader is left unaware about whether it is the same for the ‘other’ community that she mentions in the form of people related to service at her home the Fishwoman, Riceblind, Mohamdu and farmers who bring the ration to her home, writes Inshah Malik.
Sudha Koul was...
Sudha Koul was...
How authentic is ethnic!
Literature is an indivisible entity. However, that is not tantamount to denying its plurality and diversity. Literature could be as diverse as the languages of the world. In fact, it may go beyond that as there are Englishes now, not just “English” as there are multiple variations of the English language in existence now.
Readings: Essays on Kashmiri Literature by Prof Majrooh Rashid - A Review
The English language has had a very formidable and formative influence on the Kashmiri language and literature both technically as well as thematically.
The transition from the customary poetry to a more creative and forthright expression that took place in the early twentieth century Kashmiri poetry also happened out of the indirect influences of that language in its initial phase. That influence took place at two levels-literary and technical. Literary revolutions that were afoot in the...
The transition from the customary poetry to a more creative and forthright expression that took place in the early twentieth century Kashmiri poetry also happened out of the indirect influences of that language in its initial phase. That influence took place at two levels-literary and technical. Literary revolutions that were afoot in the...
The Joy of Activism
In the early 1980s, when a government contractor arrived in the Gharwal Himalayas armed with chain-saws to fell trees for 'urban development', hundreds of women from nearby villages swooped on the site. By hugging the trees, they saved their forest.
Activism is that social consciousness that refuses to be cowed down under the weight of injustice and apathy, not because the cause being fought for has a high quotient of future success, but because your conscience forbids you to remain a silent...
Activism is that social consciousness that refuses to be cowed down under the weight of injustice and apathy, not because the cause being fought for has a high quotient of future success, but because your conscience forbids you to remain a silent...
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