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Khalid Bashir Ahmad is a Kashmiri author, poet, and former civil servant. [1] [2] He has written on the socio-political history of Kashmir.Ahmad served in the Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS) and held positions including Director of Information and Public Relations and Secretary of the Jammu & Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture, and Languages.
Literature of Kashmir has a long history, the oldest texts having been composed in the Sanskrit language. Early names include Patanjali, the author of the Mahābhāṣya commentary on Pāṇini's grammar, suggested by some to have been the same to write the Hindu treatise known as the Yogasutra, and Dridhbala, who revised the Charaka Samhita of Ayurveda.
Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad (August 1885 − 9 April 1952), known by his pen name as Mahjoor, was a poet of the Kashmir Valley. [2] [3] [4] He is especially noted for introducing a new style into Kashmiri poetry and for expanding Kashmiri poetry into previously unexplored thematic realms. [5]
Kshemendra was born into an old, cultured, and affluent family. [5] His father was Prakashendra, a descendant of Narendra who was the minister to Jayapida. [6] Both his education and literary output were broad and varied.
Women writers from Jammu and Kashmir (9 P) D. Dramatists and playwrights from Jammu and Kashmir (1 C, 8 P) J. Journalists from Jammu and Kashmir (26 P) N.
Abdur Rehman Rahi (Kashmiri: رَحمان راہی; 6 May 1925 – 9 January 2023) was an Kashmiri poet, translator and critic. He was awarded the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for his poetry collection Nawroz-i-Saba, the Padma Shri in 2000, [1] and India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith Award (for the year 2004) in 2007.
A love story between a Sunni and a Shi'ite in troubled 1990s Kashmir, it was reviewed by Alice Albinia in the Financial Times: "A haunting illustration of how, at the end of last century, normal life became impossible for many of those who call Kashmir home." [4] His third novel, Tell Her Everything, was released in January 2019. [5]
Kamil was born at Kaprin, a village in South Kashmir. [4] He graduated in Arts from the Punjab University and took his degree in Law from the Aligarh Muslim University. [citation needed] He joined the Bar in 1947 and continued to practice Law until 1949, when he was appointed a lecturer in Sri Pratap College, Srinagar.