Many communities e.g. Palestinians, Jews, Tibetans, Sindhis, Kashmiri Hindus, have been banished from their homeland through an act of religiouscleansing.

There are evidences galore to establish that Kashmir enjoyed a tremendous reputation for being an abode of rishis (rishi vatika) harbouring a strong and coherent indigenous tradition of rishi-cult with its root systems embedded in the vedic age.

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.

Kashmir problem has three dimensions one, it is part of nonsecularisation of Indian Muslim Community. If in Kashmir it manifests as secessionism, elsewhere it presents as cultural separatism.

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.

In sixties and seventies Mainstream, Economic and Political Weekly and Seminar were influential left-wing journals and commanded academic prestige.

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.

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.

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.

The second half of the nineteenth century was a very important period in the history of Urdu, Hindi and Bengali prose.