The Dragon Myths
With Chinese in Ladakh, Aksai Chin is again in news. New Delhi says Pakistan ceded 2050 square miles of Kashmir State territory to China...
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...
Forgotten Dispatches
France’s ‘botanical romantic’ Victor Vincelas Jacquemont (1801-1832) spent 1831 summer in Kashmir at the peak of exploitative Sikh misrule. Letters, he sent home from...
Jamaat Jammed
As the Jamaat-e-Islami workers are imprisoned across Jammu and Kashmir after the party was banned by the Home Ministry, forcing lot many to go...
Unbridgeable
The famous wooden bridges of Valley added to uniqueness of the Kashmir’s architecture and have served people for centuries. Aliya Bashir reports.
Wood was the...
Kashmir 1783
When George Forster visited Kashmir in 1783 spring, it was Azad Khan ruling the roost in Srinagar. He has recorded the state and status...
‘Abdullah had agreed to join Congress’
In the concluding part of the interview with Shahnawaz Khan senior journalist Ved Bhasin talks about his first hand knowledge of important Kashmiri leaders
(Sheikh...
Khalnayak’s Narrative
By boycotting the official Martyrs Day function, the ruling BJP created a historic precedence that shocked everybody. But Bilal Handoo says the rightwing party...
1905 Floods: A First Hand Account
A British author T R Swinburne along with many of his friends was visiting Kashmir when they were caught in the floods in 1905,...
Nostalgic Kashmir
Passionate about the diverse facets of Kashmir’s past, engineer Showkat Rashid Wani and his son have created an impressive repository of thousands of photographs...
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...
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...
The Making Of A Treaty
Barring that the water sharing Indus Water Treaty was brokered by World Bank for India and Pakistan, nothing much is in public knowledge. In...
The Nehru ‘Trial’
After 75 years of Jammu and Kashmir’s accession, the ruling BJP is holding Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru of a series...
Vandalizing Heritage
A senseless human intervention is threatening the existence of a 16th century heritage structure in saffron town of Pampore. The building has lost its...
