1931 – A Memorandum
Months after July 13, 1931, marked the beginning of the demands for political reforms and basic rights by the Jammu and Kashmir Muslims and...
A Different Legacy
It was Sheikh Abdullah’s trusted man Bakshi Ghulam Ahmad who replaced him and erased his legacy, although marginally. Hafsa Kanjwal argues that New Delhi...
Forgotten Hakeems
Nestled in old lanes of Srinagar, Hakeems are struggling to survive in face of modernity. Syed Asma talks to some of the surviving practitioners...
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...
Tamed, Not Caged
Chitralekha Zutshi’s book, Sheikh Abdullah – The Caged Lion of Kashmir is by far the most perceptive work on Abdullah but is short of...
Costly Land Reforms
In the history of Kashmir, land to tiller is the biggest intervention that lacks parallels. But these proved very costly for Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah,...
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,...
Raja Sukh Jiwan Mal
Fierce resistance to the Afghan rule in Kashmir was led by a Punjab born Gujarati who adopted Kashmir and Kashmiris and eventually died for...
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’...
Budshah’s Nallai Mar
For ages, rulers in Kashmir have constructed canals to improve life and production. But there is no ruler who could come even closer to...
Sheikh Abdullah, A CIA Profile
April 8, 1964 J&K state government released Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah after withdrawing the Kashmir conspiracy case. It was a major development that was written...
Sacrifice for Shiekh
He knows where the key of Kashmir’s political fate lies. Tasavur Mushtaq meets the man who enabled Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah to re enter Jammu...
Kashmir’s Canal Life 1954
Srinagar’s water bodies have historically remained a self-sustaining eco-system in which people lived, worked and thrived throughout. Life remained unchanged for a long time...
The Disconnect
Many historic routes connect Kashmir to the outside world. It has been an important place on the silk route but the political changes in...
1947: The Last Letter
At the peak of 1947 Jammu Massacre, a 17-year old bride in Bhaderwah was waiting for her professor husband with their midnight summer’s child...
