Kashmir

Enchantments of Memory

Pico Iyer

Kashmir is a parable about how paradise becomes something different to every neighbour

Syama Prasad Mookerjee: The One Who Saw the Future

More than sixty years after his death, Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s position on Kashmir has been vindicated and his critique of the Nehruvian order is redefining the idea of Indian nationhood

Shiv Kumar Sharma (1938-2022): The Sound of Kashmir

Kaveree Bamzai

The santoor maestro epitomises the dictum that music has no religion

Higher Reality

Rishad Saam Mehta

An eight-day trek along the great lakes of Kashmir culminating in the sacred mountain of Harmukh is a physical and spiritual experience

Mountbatten’s Hidden Agenda

Iqbal Chand Malhotra

When Kashmir was a pawn in Britain’s quest to join the nuclear club

Safe Distance?

Jayanta Ghosal

There is now speculation that Nitish Kumar is again planning to change his political alignment and laying the ground to distance himself from BJP for the 2024 General Election.