J&K: Evolution of Communalism
The Hindu Right has evolved its own distinction in narrating and understanding history, especially of Kashmir. As efforts are underway to polarise the state...
Taking Quran to Dogras’
Amid tensions across J&K, there is one great development: the Quran is finally having a Dogri translation and it will be out this summer....
Trek to Yarkand
In July 1846, almost four months after British sold Kashmir to Gulab Singh, a Kashmiri nobleman Ahmed Shah Nakshahbandi submitted his assignment to Lord...
Kashmir: The Conflict and the Questions
With a PhD each from JNU and University of Massachusetts, Dr Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is currently a Director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre, in...
Untouchability Reforms in J&K
A BJP lawmaker funding upper caste crematoriums and more recently the Jammu University faculty getting invitations with their category mentioned on the covers, seemingly...
Nehru’s First Speech On Kashmir
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last week, commented that had Sardar Patel been in the driving seat, “entire Kashmir would have been ours”, has triggered...
An ‘Outsider’ Account
Within a year after her retirement, IAS officer Sonali Kumar came out with a book that seemingly attempts strengthening a narrative that has a...
Kandahar’s Qizilbash
From Kashmir’s first matriculate in the late nineteenth century to the poet of ‘A Country Without A Post Office’, the successive generations of Qizilbash...
Vital Memories
A book by an Islamabad based journalist Qasim Sajad has added various details to events of kashmir’s contemporary history. But the beauty of the...
Guru’s Last Days
Congress government exercised so haste that Tihar jail failed even in arranging a professional hangman to work the gallows for hanging Afzal Guru. TV...
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...
