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A man stands inside a house damaged after cross-border shelling by Pakistan during the military conflict between India and Pakistan, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on May 10, 2025.

The shelling did not stop for the children

The ceasefire ended, the bombs fell, and Poonch buried its children. The generals and politicians seem to have moved on. The poor never can.

The stories have at their core the sense of disquiet and uncertainty with which Kashmir is all too familiar. Here a fire-ravaged house in Srinagar in February 2025.

Whispers of mortality: Kashmir beyond the conflict

Zahid Rafiq’s lyrical stories capture the texture of daily life in Kashmir, where hope is ephemeral and despair permanent.

Two-and-a-half months since he took oath, Omar Abdullah is navigating a political scenario that is rife with dissent and a policy paralysis.

Omar Abdullah: A Chief Minister circumscribed

Two months into his term, Kashmir’s first elected head since 2019 confronts protests and a governance system that leaves real power with the L-G.

Mullah Shah Mosque is the only medieval mosque in Kashmir that was sponsored by a woman. It was commissioned by Jahanara Begum, Emperor Aurangzeb’s sister, for her spiritual preceptor, Mullah Shah. The construction was overseen by their heterodox sibling, Dara Shikoh. The western side of the mosque features Persian inscriptions authored by Kalim Kashani, a 17th century Persian poet. One of the inscriptions compares the mosque with the holy Kaaba.

Kashmir’s Sufi soul

Ancient monuments of Sufi orders dotting the Valley speak of the existence of an Islam that was more accommodative than its modern revivalist avatar.

The 17th century limestone slab in the walls of Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. At the bottom, a small engraving reads, “the work of Hari Ram”.

Old stones, new tales: How inscriptions rewrite Kashmir’s religious history

A new study has revealed narratives of syncretism that counter the politically motivated and polarised versions of the Valley’s history.

A Kashmiri Pandit home in Srinagar, circa 1983.

A Kashmiri Pandit’s journey from Srinagar to Hollywood

Set in the backdrop of the three-decade-old Kashmir conflict, Priyanka Mattoo’s memoir is an important addition to the literature of exile in India.

Survivors of the 1984 gas disaster burning an effigy of Union Carbide outside the company’s abandoned factory premises in Bhopal on December 3, 2018.

The rise of the Hindu Right

Siddhartha Deb’s Twilight Prisoners outlines the contribution of the liberal elite to the emergence of the Narendra Modi regime.

Modi masks on display at the Vibrant Gujarat summit in Gandhinagar, on January 19, 2019.

The Modi model

Christophe Jaffrelot explains the authoritarian model of governance Modi had formulated as Chief Minister, which he later implemented at the Centre.

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