Naya Kashmir Debate
With elections round the corner, Naya Kashmir, the erstwhile political bible of the ruling National Conference (NC) will find increasing references in state’s political...
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....
24 years of remembrance
As chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted the Gaw Kadal Massacre as ‘dark day’ in recent history of Kashmir, the valley silently observed 24th anniversary...
Facing Fire
From 17 fire incidents in 1955 to 5000 incidents a year now, fire fighters remained on their toes as properties worth corers were consumed...
A Forgotten Plebiscite?
Once upon a time UN passed a resolution seeking plebiscite in Kashmir. It was response to the complaint that Pandit Nehru took to the...
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....
Kashmir’s English Martyr
Almost 145 years after his murder when the civil society is planning to create a memoriam for Robert Thorp, historian Ashiq Hussain Bhat writes...
The Forest Folklore
The battle against smuggling has made Kashmir literally beg for cheap inter-continental timber that now sustains a huge economy. With scores of compartments totally...
An Enigma Called Sheikh
On Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s birth anniversary (December 5), historian Ashiq Hussian Bhat studies Aatash-e-Chinar afresh to conclude that Sher-e-Kashmir had committed himself to Delhi...
Landlords of Lalpora
The rise and fall of Bhat family in Lolab valley coincided with major events in Kashmir history. From once powerful landlords to mere numberdaars,...
Ghosts Of 90’s Back!
Ghost stories of 90’s were mostly attributed to new military tactics to create fear psychosis in civilian population, however, the claims remained unconfirmed. The...
66 Years Ago
The landing of the Indian army on October 27, 1947, is one of the most debated events of Kashmir’s contemporary history. For the last...
Gandhi And ‘The Ray Of Light’
Till he was assassinated on January 31, 1948 Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi never uttered a word against Delhi’s official stand on Kashmir. It was...
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...
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...
