'Brothers Karamazov: Dostoyevsky takes a stroll in downtown Kashmir'

The article explores how Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov offers a powerful lens to understand contemporary Kashmir, much as it once illuminated 19th-century Russia. It links Carl Schmitt’s ideas of sovereignty and the ‘state of exception’ with Dostoyevsky’s portrayal of the unfinalizability of human beings, arguing that the novel’s conflicted brothers mirror Kashmiri society’s struggle with faith, doubt, modernity and moral uncertainty amid political upheaval and global technological change.