13 July 1931: A Chapter of Kashmir
by G M Lone
A chapter of Kashmir history starts from 1846 when Sikh rule ended and the British sold Kashmir to Dogra Maharaja Gulab...
Yours Faithfully!
Many tools were employed by Hindu Rulers to manage Muslim subjects. One of them was the Muslim clergy. Khalid Bashir Ahmad details the largesse...
Gawkadal A Massacre, A Case
It took 22 years for the State Human Rights Commission to order a formal inquiry into Gawkadal massacre in which scores of harmless people...
A Piece of Kashmir in Ladakh
Khalid Bashir Ahmad, a poet and historian, on his recent trip to Ladakh stopped over briefly in Matayan to sketch the life and history...
JKLF’s Israel Blitzkrieg!
The dramatic abduction and release of an Israeli tourist in early nineties by the ‘powerful’ Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on ‘humanitarian grounds’...
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
(September 21, 1949 - December 16, 1993)
A man, who jumped into politics, contested an election unsuccessfully and was eventually killed as a...
Costs of Occupation
When troops handed over keys of sports complex Bijbehara to displaced bat manufactures after 23 years it brought back bitter memories of the past....
Jagmohan Days
NDA government’s Padma Vibhushan to Jagmohan Malhotra pushed Kashmir back to his stint in the 1990s’, reliving the days and nights of horror and terror....
Pathan Remembers
Witness to the goriest 1990s, former police officer Israr Khan was part of the set-up that escorted Kashmiri Pandits, out of Kashmir, on Jagmohan’s...
Rare Kashmir Cars
In an ongoing Salon Retromobile exhibition in Paris, two of the 15 Rolls Royce Cars once belonged to the erstwhile Kashmir autocrat Hari Singh....
Exiled By Hijack
In between the two high-profile hijackings of 1971 and 1999 involving Kashmir, there was one least reported and much less talked about. Shams Irfan...
Kashmir Wazwan
A Bollywood producer, currently in Srinagar, triggered a controversy by claiming that he has introduced veg-Wazwaan. He was trolled for naming a typical thali,...
Muslim Conference Conversion
One of the landmark decisions in Kashmir’s history was the conversion of the Muslim Conference into National Conference in 1939. Why and how this...
Neglected Discoveries
What lies beneath is the question that has baffled archeologists for long. Perhaps the answer lies in discoveries made on and off. But an...
Kashmir’s Last Maharaja
Signing instrument of accession and sitting silent over the massacre of Muslims in Jammu in the fall of 1947 were just two instances of...
