Sheikh ul Alam as Kashmir’s own Emancipation Theologian
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the article Sheikh ul Alam, commonly referred to as Sheikh Nooruddin, Nund Reshi, or Shazanand, holds a significant place in the hearts of…
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Khalid Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini poignantly writes the story of brave and courageous Afghan women who have lived under the debilitating shadows of patriarchal oppression, endless…
Documenting History in Exile: Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude
The Garden of Solitude is Siddhartha Gigoo’s debut work. Gigoo was born in Downtown, Srinagar in 1974 in a Kashmiri Hindu family. Kashmiri Hindus are generally known as Pandits. For…
History vis-a-vis Fiction: A Fascinating Dialectic
The much contested debate pertaining to the relationship between Literature and History dates back to the classical times. Beginning with Aristotle, there have been constant efforts to identify the links…
Night of the Golden Butterfly: An Intense Political Elegy
The novel Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010) by eminent Marxist intellectual and author, Tariq Ali, is a narrative which paints a dystopian vision of what political authoritarianism looks like.…
Tariq Ali’s The Stone Woman: An Allegory of Ottomans with Strong Contemporary Parallels
Tariq Ali’s novel The Stone Woman critically tells us the story of declining Ottoman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has plenty of lessons for the current…
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