Archive for May, 2012
Lahore – How it underwent Cultural cleansing after 1947
By Dr. Ajay Chrungoo Many communities e.g. Palestinians, Jews, Tibetans, Sindhis, Kashmiri Hindus, have been banished from their homeland through an act of religiouscleansing. Invariably, the aggressor community resorts to cultural effacement in the aftermath of ethnic-cleansing to deny that t
The Kashmir Story
By Dr. Ajay Chrungoo John Ruskin, the famed British essayist, classified books into two categories - Books of the hour and Books of all time. 'In search of a future-The story ofKashmir', a new book on Kashmir by David Devdas, a well-known columnist, defies this classification. The book offers rich
Raiders’ Invasion-New Revelations
Jeet Ya Haar (By Balraj Madhok) By P.N. Raina Jeet (win) Ya (or) Haar (Defeat) is a novel based on the Tribal Raiders’ invasion of J&K State in 1947. Its author Prof. Balraj Madhok claims that the novel is based on the actual incidents, events he had recorded regularly in his daily diary
Infinite Riches in a Little Room
By Dr. A.N. Dhar THE author of the volume under review, Prof. Arvind Gigoo, has made a gentle impact as a talented writer during the past decade or so--through his competent English translations of some select Kashmiri verse (drawn from the works of a few noted poets) and also through his own poet
Indutva – A vision of a strong India
Dr. Ajay Chrungoo INDIA is on the threshold of becoming a major regional power. Its adversaries have been trying to thwart these ambitions by unleashing a proxy-war against it. What is intriguing is that a section of our own people should facilitate these designs. These people need to be ident
A Feast in Photographs – A Book Review
KASHMIRI PANDITS are a unique community in many ways. Their contribution to the fund of Indian civilisation at all times in history has been awesome. No community has played a role so disproportionate to its numbers as Kashmiri Pandits have. Yet their success has been their undoing. During the past
K.L. Choudhary’s ‘Of Gods, men and militants’
By Dwarkanath Munshi So much has been said , written, discussed and debated about Kashmir over the last decade and more that one might mistake this volume as one more of the same. But it takes just a casual first glance over the anthology of poems to realise that nothing could be farther from th
Exile Literature Comes Of Age
by Kuldeep Raina A genocide is a terrible event. Every member of the victimised community has his own experiences- horrific and non-horrific to relate to. Yet it needs Parineeta Khar to weave these experiences into pieces of great literature. She was not part of the great exodus the Kashmiri P
Dashi-Haar
By Syed Rasool Pompur Dashi-Haar is a 112-Page collection of Kashmiri Poems in 20"x30"x16" size, published by the renowned Kashmiri poet Shri Arjan Dev Majboor, twenty three years ago in 1983. It comprises of about 38 poems, eight ghazals (lyric), besides a translation of Allama Iqbal's poem:
Dassi’s Chander Vaakh’ released
KS Correspondent JAMMU, May 31, 2003: Smt. Chandra Dassi’s poetry collection "Chandra Vaakh" was released in an impressive function organised by “Nagrad Adbi Sangami” at Press Club Jammu here today. The book which belongs to the genre of mystic poetry was released by guest of honour Prof.
Manto Katha – A Notable Work Of Dr. Brij Premi
By Upender Ambardar The book titled “Mantoo Katha” authored by Dr. Brij Premi is another factual and well documented book on Sadat Hassan Mantoo. Backed up with minutest details, the author reveals in a lucid manner certain unexplored and lesser known facets of Mantoo’s life and works, hith
Jammu-o-Kashmir Main Urdu Adab Ki Nashu Numa
Author: Brij Premi Publisher: Ruchna Publications Naseeb Nagar, Jammu-1992 Reviewer: Prof. R.N. Kaul, Chinore, Jammu Paying a tribute to his friend and patron, Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare wrote in one of his sonnets: So long as men can breathe, have eyes to see, So long lives
Dr. Brij Premi’s Momentous Work
“Saadat Hassan Manto-Hayat Aur Karnamay” By Upender Ambardar Dr. Brij Premi, a noted Urdu scholar and a writer is a name familiar to a wide circle of Urdu readers. The wealth of written material he has left behind in the form of books, research articles, shot stories, essays, literary criticis
Lalla has no linkage with Islamic Sufism
Prof. M. L. Koul R.N. Koul's book on Lalla Ded has in no manner thrown any new light on the historical times that provided background setting for the emergence of a personality like Lalla who by and large shaped a response to the challenge posed by the forces of religious intolerance and obsc
Literature as a weapon against colonialism
Review by Tej N. Dhar Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe. Anchor Books, 2001. Pages 115. $ 10. Chinua Achebe has already established his rightful place in the world of letters. Apart from writing influential novels, poems, and short stories, Achebe has also written ground-breaking essays. Withou
‘Demystifying Kashmir’ explodes many myths
By Raman Kumar Bhat Crisis in Kashmir continues to defy solution, not due to complexity of the problem but because the Indian political leadership has allowed itself to become prisoner of myths, assiduously promoted by the vested interests inimical to Indian interests in Kashmir. Such expression
The Role of Lucknow Kashmiri Pandits
by Dr. RK Tamiri Title: Lucknow Ke Kashmiri Pandit. Author: Dr. B.N. Sharga Published by: Dr. Vasudev Sharan Agarwal, Sanskriti Sansthan, 13 Shivaji Marg, Lucknow. Price: Rs. 50/- Diversity of a region is its beauty. It enriches the cultural tapestry of the place and fosters tolerati
Obreh Shechh
by MK Tikoo "As for the problems of translations, one can hardly set a more untranslatable example than Kalidasa. One says this a little more emphatically than may sound reasonable and considering the temper of Kashmiri language. This is partly one reason why Kalidasa has so far been left untouche
Dissecting the Proxy War
In sixties and seventies Mainstream, Economic and Political Weekly and Seminar were influential left-wing journals and commanded academic prestige. With profound crisis overtaking Marxism, questioning its legitimacy both as a political system as well as a social theory, very few left journals have s
The Shadow Of Militancy – a Review
A Response to Tejnath Dhar's Book Titled Under The Shadow Of Militancy: The Dairy of an Unknown Kashmiri By A.N. Dhar This short write-up is not meant to serve the purpose of a critical review of the book in question when, within the space of a year only, as many as 23 reviews on it have alr
Rajouri Did Not Even Receive A Condolence
By P.N. Raina Genocide and Exile are two terrible words. Those who experience it can never get it out of their minds so long as they are alive. Reliving these events through narratives, oral or historical, is more than recording history an attempt to come to terms with the self. ‘Rajouri Remem
Some Observations on Doctor Roshan Saraf’s Rythmic Verses
By A.N. Dhar A Kashmiri displaced from the Valley as a physician, Dr. Roshan Saraf didn’t take long here in being seen as a talented person, precisely as a man of letters. An artist by taste and temperament, he has a melodious voice, sings tunefully and composes verses both in Kashmiri and Engl
Saiva Saints of 19th-20th Century Kashmir
By Dr. R.K. Tamiri For over twelve centuries Trika Shaivism has remained a dominant creed in Kashmir, influencing almost every aspect of social life of Hindu society of Kashmir. Its rich legacy reflected in philosophy, folklore, aesthetics, literature, art and architecture, rituals, place names,
Kashmir Hindu Sanskars (Rituals, Rites and Customs): A Study
By Upender Ambardar The book under review titled as 'Kashmir Hindu Sanskars' (Rituals, Rites and Customs): A study is authored by Sh. S.N. Pandit. Before emarking upon the review of the said book, it is imperative to have a clear understanding of religion, culture, Sanskars, ritual rites and cust
Sarshar: Pioneer of Urdu-Hindi Novel
By Ravi M. Bakaya Firoz Mookerjee, who lives in London, was born in undivided India. She graduated from Lucknow University and later got her Ph.D. from the University of London, where she worked on Ratan Nath Dar ‘Sarshar’ under the supervision of Ralph Russell, Emeritus Reader in Urdu. This
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