Srinagar in 1900
In the concluding part of the 2-part series excerpted from Duke’s Guidebook to Kashmir, Joshu M Duke, the military doctor, who had spent almost...
Cashmere in Jallianwala Bagh
As tens of thousands of Kashmiris were pushed out of the valley by hunger, poverty, exploitation and fortune-hunting during despotic Pathan, Sikh and Dogra...
State Subject: The Evolution Story
Right now when Kashmiri’s entire political class has launched a serious campaign to preserve the demographic composition of J&K, Dr Nitin Chandel details how...
Ladakh in J&K
More than 178 years of losing its sovereignty in a ruthless invasion, many years before Kashmir was sold, Ladakh had something to celebrate when...
Jamaat Jammed
As the Jamaat-e-Islami workers are imprisoned across Jammu and Kashmir after the party was banned by the Home Ministry, forcing lot many to go...
Sheikh and Plebiscite
Biography of Kashmir’s tallest leader Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has certain references that M J Aslam failed to get a plausible explanation from the history
Sheikh...
Jinnah And A Controversial Marriage
It is well known that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah argued for a politically sensitive case involving a Kashmir marriage in 1936 and won...
Tral’s Gufkrals’
On the foothills of Tral is a maze of caves that is an established archaeological site offering details about the early settlements of mankind...
An Amir Memory
After reading two books, he gave up a lucrative teacher’s job, which was the lone source of his income to feed a large family....
Begar In Kashmir History
The forced labour was part of Kashmir’s centuries’ old economic exploitation that killed generations in the service of the despots. Muzamil Rashid explains the...
Those Dark Days
Barely married he was and the partition took place. After surviving the massacres at his Reasi home, Karimuddin and his family fled deep into...
Before Pathan Raids
A series of developments took place before and after the crucial three days between October 23 and 27, 1947, but were deliberately not mentioned...
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...
Between Red And Green
The right-wingers demolished Sheikh Abdullah’s ‘empire’ by taking their battle – Eak Vidhan, Eak Nishan, against the twin flags system to Srinagar. They, however,...
Article 35(A): The Evolution of A Protection
by M J Aslam
Any argument against Article 35(A) of the Constitution of India in isolation from the political and social conditions in which partition...
