Kashmir: The land of streams & solitudes By P.Pirie Illustrations by H.R. Pierie Printer: WM. Brendon and Sons, Ltd Plymouth   […]

In the Valley of Shadows By Abhay Narayan Sapru Date of Publication: 2011 Publisher: Wisdom Tree After forty minutes of […]

In the Valley of Shadows By Abhay Narayan Sapru Date of Publication: 2011 Publisher: Wisdom Tree A MASSIVE STORM was […]

The Man & the Mountain By Imtiyaz Khan Date of Publication : 2016 Publisher : Notion Press It was unfortunately […]

You ‪,‬ the light of lights‪,‬ imperiled the world You discredited the human ‏You discredited the human ‏You trade in […]

The Man & the Mountain By Imtiyaz Khan Date of Publication : 2016 Publisher : Notion Press   I did […]

Not prepared… The one who loves me more than I My hope, my light, my tears and my Master The […]

My heart you stole, and left me a maiden. With a blot in Ashes I’ll smear myself and wander away,dear […]

Orphans of the Storm By Ravi Dhar : Blackbuck Publication, New Delhi India Date of Publication : 2014 November Chapter […]

A guide for visitors to KASHMIR Calcutta : W. NEWMAN & CO., DALHOUSIE SQUARE – 1898   Chapter : Coins […]

Do I crave? Inside my lively grave, With my fierce pain, Hard to refrain, Then why do you? Oh people […]

How do I plane the rebellion waves along the shore? How do I make plea to the sands of time […]

Compulsion One would cry and not restrain the tears, But crying is of no avail, Shedding incessant tears is of […]

Stay Close to me Open your eyes and see Bursting through your seams, From my mouth a wish leaves. It […]

In the deep, dark forests of the mysterious Orient, you hunt Musk and with it, prepare a bath of honey […]

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 5 This reign was, too remarkable for the execution of an engineering scheme to […]

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 4 Passing now over a period of six centuries, the only authentically recorded event […]

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 3 Thus among the first authentic facts we can safely lay hold of from […]

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 2 On a perfectly open and even plain, gently sloping away from a background […]

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 1 A country of such striking natural beauty must, surely, at some period of […]

Muriel A.E. Brown Chenar Leaves: Poems of Kashmir (1921) Mrs. Percy Brown Published by Longmans,Green and Co (London) in 1921 […]

O bulbul, let the freedom urge possess your soul ! Bid good bye to your cage, step out, Gather your […]

A hut leaned against a house counting its days winter after winter. One winter snow shattered its roof; another winter […]

An autobiography Forewords by: The Earl of Halifax, K.G., O.M (Viceroy of India 1926-31) Field Marshal Lord Birdwood of Anzac, […]

I walked on the shore and my dreams webbed more, For I dreamed,of a world brightened, Blessings and blessings, And […]

(1916-88) That day, the tsot-like moon ascended behind the hills looking wane and worn like a gown of Pampur tweed with a tattered […]

Brooding, in the flicker of an oil lamp Pensive thoughts, I attain I ask, Why Sheer Negativity, for the beleaguered […]

The day had been long and tiring Clustered with various thoughts and emotions Honest work , corrupt systems , politics […]

  No way set the fire free, ablaze the obsession, within you and me, for that unbidden reality, let it […]

Flower of Nishat Bagh, Come with your graces, Come with your laughter, Come showering pearls ! When you entered the […]

In this freezing wave of snow and cold,I hugged the warmth of the unconscious little night,again under the quilt crude,and […]

    Muriel A.E. Brown Chenar Leaves: Poems of Kashmir (1921) Mrs. Percy Brown Published by Longmans,Green and Co (London) […]

Under the dark shades of the pine I have lost I have come again to the city of a tribe […]

The winter season is a welcome change after the gruelling summer in Delhi. The nip in the air feels gentle […]

By K.C.I.E. Sir George Grierson Published in 1920 PREFACE THE collection of songs edited in the present volume possesses a […]

Pieces of my broken soul still cling to you Drooping breaths from frail limbs of life Moonbeams, like quicksilver, skid […]

From the Book “KASHMIR’ By Sir Francis Younghusband 1st Published in September 1909 The most striking of the side-valley is […]

You left temples godless behind on their own, concerned. You took away deities asleep, draped in silk soaked with tears […]

Away from din and delusion of the city When evening skids down my glum shoulders And darkness stalks Like a […]

A Short Story by Faruq Masudi Perched restlessly atop a pink petal, a drop of dew longed for the rosebud to […]

Muriel A.E. Brown Chenar Leaves: Poems of Kashmir (1921) Mrs. Percy Brown Published by Longmans,Green and Co (London) in 1921. […]

Hear me: hear through the crevices of sleep—tonight? Whatever remains of that memory—let’s keep tonight. Pray: the soldiers return galled […]

The rivulets meandering down the slopes Twisting and turning, gleaming and glowing Sometimes caressing, restlessly eloping Rushing down with a […]

From the Book “KASHMIR’ By Sir Francis Younghusband 1st Published in September 1909 What will be one day know as […]

A short story by Faruq Masudi Times Square Manhattan, NY It is one of the most hospitable places of the […]

A master broadcaster of our generation, whose vote bank at one point of time could be gauged by the number […]

Born in a family of artists, where his grandfather played Saran and his cousin was a professional singer, Suhail’s entry into art […]

Roads don’t wind rivers don’t hum, Homes so stark, with no hearth The sun sets straight into the earth, Like […]

Damp curtains are undone Fatigued hours curtailed Those failed To quench the flames Veering to devour one, exonerate anotherPearly moonbeams […]

On 31 July 1986, in the Towheed Gunj Mohalla of Baramulla was born a child who studied engineering only to […]

I planted a cherry tree Four seasons back In a morose rain Pelting sharp upon nimble naked boughs And rows, […]