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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.
In April 2018, Kashmir Observer reported "Scattered Souls is the best-selling fiction book in Kashmir till date... Its sales [in the bookstores of Srinagar] have surpassed the other fiction titles by Kashmiri writers writing in English". [12] His works of fiction have been compared with Saadat Hasan Manto and Anton Chekov. [13]
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.
Mullah Nadiri (fl.1420 CE) Kashmiri poet of Persian-language, known for writing Tarikh-i-Kashmir; Nayantara Sahgal (1927– ), Indo-Anglian writer, novelist; Nyla Ali Khan, Professor, writer, granddaughter of Sheikh Abdullah. Pamposh Bhat, (1958– ), author and environmentalist. Rasul Mir, also known as the John Keats of Kashmir. Rehman Rahi ...
Kashmiri male writers (5 P) P. Kashmiri-language dramatists and playwrights (1 P) Kashmiri poets (51 P) W. Kashmiri women writers (4 P) Pages in category "Kashmiri ...
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.
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.