India today

India today Today, 6th December 2008, was the sixteenth anniversary of the destruction of the Babri Masjid, a potently symbolic mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh in North India. On this date in 1992 150,000 Hindu nationalists demolished the mosque that is thought to...

Bombay/Mumbai Attacks

Bombay/Mumbai Attacks When the news first hit on Wednesday night, 26th November, of violent attacks in Bombay/Mumbai every rumour and conspiracy theory began to swirl. These crazy spins are the air people breathe here in India. Everyone has their own wild...

Kashmir’s new pain

Kashmir’s new pain Kashmir is back in the headlines, and the commentators are spinning out their theories across the world press. Many of us believed that a gentler time really was returning to Kashmir, and then this fragile sense was exploded in August, ignited...

Next Book Announced!

Next Book Announced! My next book, In the Valley of Mist: One Kashmiri Family in a Changing World will be published in Spring 2009 by Rider (an imprint of Ebury Press) in London and The Free Press (from Simon & Schuster) in New York. The non-fiction work...