Op Gibraltar
Half a century eclipsed since Pakistani dictator Ayub Khan pushed regulars disguised as Mujahedeen behind enemy lines into Kashmir thinking it would fetch him...
Kashmir’s Map Shawls
Shawls woven in Kashmir were fashion statements on Paris streets early nineteenth century. But it took a long time for the buyers to understand...
Khawaja Saududdin Shawl (1873-1955)
In Kashmir tehreek against the despotic Dogra rule, one of the major characters was businessman, Khawaja Sauddin Shawl, whose contribution is least known and...
In Maqbool Bhat’s Trehgam
For the last 30 years, Kashmir has been freezing life to remember Maqbool Bhat, the man who was born out of his execution in...
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and a superstitious clergy, reports...
1865: Kashmir Weavers’ Agitation
By all accounts, world’s first organised labour agitation took place in Kashmir on April 29, 1865, almost 21 years before the Haymarket Affair in...
A Quiet Surrender
The National Conference led government was keen to protect district cadre jobs for home districts alone. But when the moment arrived it chose to...
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...
A History’s Witness
K D Sethi is a dark old horse that has been a part of and an intimate witness to some of the most important...
Tonga Tourism
Now, Kashmir’s hospitality sector is modern, sophisticated and fast. But imagine how tourism was conducted in Kashmir in the 1880s, in absence of proper...
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...
Deconstructing Budshah
Kashmir’s medieval Sultan Zain-ul-Abideen was tolerant, secular, humane and lover of knowledge and art. He built Kashmir and faced challenges as any other ruler...
1270s: Marco Polo’s Kashmir
Italian traveller Marco Polo visited Kashmir somewhere in 1271-75 and recorded a few passages about the life and culture of a place rendered inaccessible...
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...
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...
