‘World History is Buried in Kashmir’
Prominent geologist Prof GM Bhat tells Masood Hussain that Kashmir's rocks hold the world's most complete record of Earth's greatest extinction, that humans walked...
Delhi’s Kashmir Teacher
A Kashmiri scholar trained the men who built India's most influential seminary, shaped its 1857 uprising, and defined its Islamic intellectual tradition, but history...
Kashmir: The First Count
As the families across the Jammu and Kashmir area await an enumerator’s doorbell to get counted for the Census 2027, Masood Hussain narrates the...
Kashmir: A Fisherman’s Tale
At the peak of mutiny in 1857, when Maharaja Gulab Singh’s death turned fish into forbidden fruit, Srinagar paid a savage price for the...
Kashmir’s First Pilgrim
Abd al-Karīm ibn Khwāja ʿĀqibat Maḥmūd al-Kashmīrī was waiting in Delhi for a visa to Makkah when Nadir Shah's invasion of 1739 swept him...
Kashmir and Bangladesh: Binding Threads
Kashmir and Bangladesh sit at opposite ends of the Himalayan arc, yet their ties run deep and old. Medical students, apple traders, accidental models,...
Loran: Kashmir’s Forgotten Gateway
A Poonch village that breathes Kashmiri culture carries within its ruins a fort that once stopped a world-conquering empire, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani,...
Kashmir’s Persian Past
The war in Iran has thrown Kashmiri students studying there into uncertainty, reopening a larger story of Kashmir’s deep historical connections with Persia through...
Kashmir’s River of Knowledge
From Buddhist scholastic prose to Shaiva philosophy, satire, stories, and historiography, Kashmir’s literature evolved as a disciplined, self-aware civilisation. This all started almost two...
Poonch Fort: An Introduction
In Jammu and Kashmir, the fort in the heart of the Poonch town is perhaps the only historic monument that embodies the architectural interventions...
1860: A Kashmir Memoir
A Summer Ramble in the Himalayas blends travel, ethnography, and empire, depicting the Himalayas through beauty and domination. It reveals colonial attitudes toward nature,...
Lhasa’s Kashmiri Spy
In 1830, Lhasa, a Kashmiri trader’s battered notebooks became evidence of a clandestine war waged not with muskets but with ink and inkpots, mapping...
Khalida Shah: Witness to Power Struggle
In the shadow of Kashmir’s turbulent past, the eldest child of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, Begum Khalida Shah, recalls a life shaped by political upheaval,...
The Nedous Legacy
Once a colonial-era jewel and linked to Kashmir’s first political family, the iconic Nedous Hotel in Gulmarg now stands shut, caught in a fierce...
Kashmir’s Papermaking Past
Kashmir’s centuries-old tradition of handmade paper, once renowned across empires, has now completely vanished. No tools, workshops, or artisans remain; only fading memories and...
