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...
Goda Gali: Kashmir’s Lost Hun Riders
Believed by local legend to date back to the era of the Pandavas from the Mahabharata, the mysterious stone horsemen of Gool in Ramban...
Kashmir: The Embedded Memories
Masood Hussain’s account of living with a splinter wound in Kashmir becomes a lens to explore how violence embeds itself physically in people’s lives,...
