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Why Mehak Jamal wrote stories of romantic love set in Kashmir

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Why Mehak Jamal wrote stories of romantic love set in Kashmir

[ad_1] Lōal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land by Mehak Jamal is unlike any book I’ve read about Kashmir. It does not directly document war, resistance, or politics, but instead, it lingers in the quiet, often unspoken world of love. Love as longing, as resistance, as something fragile yet fiercely persistent. The book … Read more

Reading Banu Mushtaq in Kannada for the context and themes of her ‘rebellion’ stories

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Reading Banu Mushtaq in Kannada for the context and themes of her ‘rebellion’ stories

[ad_1] Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-winning short story collection Heart Lamp is littered with a gamut of affecting objects and people: callous husbands, self-serving mutawallis, loving children, and women of all stripes. These women are, by turns, sexy, demanding, abstruse, and suffering. Kate McLoughlin notes in the Times Literary Supplement: “here are wicked in-laws, bedazzled … Read more