Prelude to 35A
A God forsaken country, located deep into Himalayas, Kashmir would play host to anybody and everybody. Criminals, deserters, rebels and preachers – people with...
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...
Pulwama’s Martyrs Day
The follow up to 1931 upheavals in Kashmir are scattered and sketchy. Almost 500 people were killed across Kashmir in the protests that erupted...
The League Mitosis
Peoples League is one of the few parties that claim to be the front runners in Kashmir’s resistance. The emergence of a new faction...
Grand Canal
A canal coming from Ganderbal would once supply water for ablutions at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and feed fields in its path. Hardly...
Rigging, Where?
For the last more than two decades, almost everybody is accusing National Conference of resorting to rigging to retain power. Riyaz Ul Khaliq talks...
Kashmir’s Bakshi Era
In her book, A Fate Written On Matchboxes, Hafsa Kanjwal, a Kashmir-origin American scholar, revisits the structure and systems in the decade-old rule by...
Riots changed J&K politics
Journalist Ved Bhasin has completed six decades in active journalism, but the editor of Kashmir Times has had an equal proximity to politics. Politics,...
Playing Spoilsport
Playing Polo in Kashmir was popular among European visitors who mostly comprised British civil and military officers escaping from the heat of plains. But...
Lost Prime Minister
After replacing Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad led a popularly corrupt regime. Syed Asma meets the former Prime Minister's surviving wife to...
Srinagar Fires 1892
Kashmir was always interesting and enigmatic. Charles Adolphus Murray, the 7th Earl of Dunmore was in Srinagar in May 1892, when it went up...
1853: A Tourist On Foot
An unknown Englishman has penned in his peculiar language his long trek from Shimla to Srinagar via Tibet on foot in the summer of...
Kashmir’s Manto
A literary genius, Saadat Hasan Manto was born to a trader family that had migrated to Punjab during Sikh rule. Even though the greatest...
