The Kashmir discourse in the West always takes the form of an Indian discourse and a Pakistani discourse. Both are mainstream statist narratives.  A true independent Kashmiri narrative, a Kashmiri perspective has yet to take root and this is lamentable. Recognising the importance of such a discourse to the world, eight scholars in the US [...]

US scholars tell Obama administration
Introduction:
Nine scholars of South Asia met at New York University’s Institute of Public Knowledge in March, to discuss the politics of knowledge concerning South Asia as it connects academic and policy work in the US. They represented a range of social science, humanities and scientific disciplines, and their research focused on [...]

The resonance of civil society led by daring black coats and voiced by a critical media offer significant hope for change.
Pakistan, the Indus heartland, the cradle of India’s ancient-most civilisation and the vanguard defence of the Sub-continent might be currently going through some volatile ideological convulsions, or could be repeating for the umpteenth time its [...]

Ranchan sums up superbly the amazing ability of Ruskin Bond, ‘the old man of the hills’,
says Reginald Massey
BONDING WITH BOND: a psychoanalytic study of the man and the writer, by Som Parkash Ranchan. Chandigarh: Graphit India, info@graphitindia.com. ISBN 81-904236-6-5.HB. 214pp. Indian Rupees 353.00.
Ruskin Bond’s name is virtually unknown outside India even though in the [...]

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‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950’ is a three year project (2007-10) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Making Britain examines South Asian contributions to Britain’s literary, cultural and political life in the period 1870-1950. Complicating the common perception that a homogeneous British culture only began to diversify after [...]

Over the years, tremendous political and social turmoil has been generated in the state by the forces of religious fundamentalism and by an exclusionary nationalism that seeks to erode the cultural syncretism that is part of the ethos of Kashmir. These forces are responsible for the shutting down of dissenters who voice cultural critique, repression [...]

Nyla Ali Khan
About the book
(Extract from the author’s preface)
I belong to Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir (J & K), a highly volatile South Asian region with rich reservoirs of cultural, social and human wealth. I was raised in the splendid Kashmir Valley located in the foothills of the Himalayas. The charm, splendour and heterogeneity of [...]

by Malashri Lal and Sukrita Paul Kumar
The eighteen essays contained in this volume create a vibrant space that compels us to look at ‘home’ from a renewed perception,
says
Usha Bande

Home, both actual and conceptual, is a highly emotive term/place. Seminal to the sense of belonging, home emphasizes a physical as well as psychological necessity and in [...]