Books by Niyati Bhat | Essays, Writing & Publications

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The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature

2026
Editor: Onaiza Drabu

For this collection, I translated five poems by Kashmiri poets Mahjoor, Naseem Shafaie and Nighat Sahiba. One of Shafaie's poems “Some Stories, Some Advice” is a joint translation with my mother, Hame Lata Bhat.

Songs of Resistance and Remembrance: Popular Culture and South Asian Anti-Geopolitic

2026
Editor: Anindya Jyoti Majumdar, Souradeep Sen

Contributed the chapter “Songs of Resistance and Remembrance: Popular Culture and South Asian Anti-Geopolitics” (pp 397–414) to this book.

Shadows of Azadi

2026
Editor: Manisha Sobhrajani

The essay “From the Mythical Yeti to the Worst Person in a Kashmiri Household: The Many Women of Kashmir” appears in the anthology alongside women writers from Jammu and Kashmir.

The Swinging '70s : Stars, Style and Substance in Hindi Cinema

2024
Editor: Nirupama Kotru, Shantanu Ray

The essay “Kya Khoob Lagti Ho: The Costumes and Style Statement of Seventies Hindi Cinema” appears in this anthology alongside writers and filmmakers such as Amborish Roychowdhury, Nandini Ramnath, Varun Grover, Vishal Bhardwaj, Jai Arjun Singh, Sriram Raghavan, Alaka Sahani, Sathya Saran among others.

A Map Called Home

2018
Editor: Manik Sharma & Semeen Ali

Two poems on Kashmir appear in this anthology of Indian poetry: Dal and In Exile

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