Prelude to 35A
A God forsaken country, located deep into Himalayas, Kashmir would play host to anybody and everybody. Criminals, deserters, rebels and preachers – people with...
Investigating Bias
Poet historian Khalid Bashir Ahmad has served the government in various capacities. But his contribution to Kashmir society came many years after his retirement,...
Indira in Dachigam
Scholar Congressman Jairam Ramesh is one of the few Indian politicians who have retained that Nehru style of politics, never give up writing. In...
1931, The Pellet Start
A public holiday, July 13 is a landmark day in the history of Kashmir that is being observed sincerely by both the camps in...
“When we seek to introspect dialectics of any process, both its negative and positive...
Dr Mir Khalid was born into a prominent civil services’ family in Safakadal, Srinagar. His clinical research has appeared in the British Journal of...
“In 90’s young Kashmiris were angry but scared and now they are angry and...
Former BBC journalist Andrew Whitehead covered Kashmir conflict extensively during troubled 90’s. On his recent visit to Srinagar, Saima Rashid talks to him about...
Cashmere’s Dogra Taxation System
Robert Thorpe (1838- 1868) was a British soldier who was moved by the exploitation of the Dogra tyranny and penned Kashmir Misgovernment: An Account...
J&K’s ‘Alienated Borderlands’
A general perception that unlike Kashmir, Jammu has survived unscathed by the overall instability and security situation of the state is incorrect. This write-up...
My Jammu Memories
People who survived 1947 and migrated have not forgotten their motherland. Sorayya Khurshid, who was born and brought up in Jammu, had written a...
Manto’s Letter to Nehru
Saadat Hussain Manto’s has been Pakistan’s celebrated story writer of Kashmir origin. But not many people know that the great story-teller has written a...
Explosion After A Royal Visit
Written on August 2, 1870, this piece offers details about the ‘pride of possession’ when Britons came visiting Kashmir. Shedding light about the court...
Ghazal and Agha Shahid
Poet Agha Shahid Ali (February 4, 1949 to December 8, 2001) eventually became Kashmir’s identity in the English literature. Prof G R Malik, the...
Burhan, Islamabad and Gwadar
Delhi manipulated post-1965 support in Kashmir by permitting a minority political class to grow gradually and dominate the scene. Strategic affairs specialists Pravin Sawhney...
A Statesman
In 1947, Kashmir was literally independent for many fortnights. After rumours about the major princely state joining India, there was Poonch rebellion and tribal...
Partition To Tashkent
Moscow's role in the UN has remained fundamental to New Delhi's Kashmir policy. The base for this role was laid when the top Soviet...
