Semthan Secrets
Located between the highway and Jhelum is Bijbehara’s Semthan. Home to a cluster of archaeological ruins, it is Kashmir’s only spot where humans’ have...
Samdanis’: Peshawar, Delhi, Lahore, Turkey
In the early nineteenth century, a Kashmir trader migrated to Peshawar and emerged a major businessman. His sons played a major role in India’s...
The Accord Cable
After G Parthasarthy and Mirza Afzal Beg signed the accord for their political masters on February 24, 1975, the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira...
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...
The Life Romance
A set of photographs showing the Srinagar romance of a couple – an American pilot and a British hostess, has been in circulation for...
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...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
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...
Towards Appreciating Mehjoor
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh flew to Srinagar to launch a postal stamp in memory of Mehjoor, Kashmir’s national poet, 60 years after his...
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...
That Million March
Mass uprising coincided with the militant upsurge in 1990. It resurged after Gawkadal massacre thus paving way for twin massacres on March 1, when...
Kashmir’s Media Associations
With many printing presses and lot many newspapers around, the journalists in Jammu and Kashmir attempted and constituted many associations to articulate the issue...
History’s Major Snowfall
Every time there is a snowfall, the media chases the weatherman asking about the dates when it snowed more last time. Even elders are...
Khwaja Sanaullah Shawl
Father of freedom movement leader Sauddin Shawl, Khawaja Sanaullah Shawl was one of the most respected traders of his era with a chain of...
Sheikh’s UN Speech
Within four months after the tribal raids led to the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir and eventually triggered the first war between India and...
