Begar In Kashmir History
The forced labour was part of Kashmir’s centuries’ old economic exploitation that killed generations in the service of the despots. Muzamil Rashid explains the...
Those Dark Days
Barely married he was and the partition took place. After surviving the massacres at his Reasi home, Karimuddin and his family fled deep into...
Before Pathan Raids
A series of developments took place before and after the crucial three days between October 23 and 27, 1947, but were deliberately not mentioned...
Exiled By Hijack
In between the two high-profile hijackings of 1971 and 1999 involving Kashmir, there was one least reported and much less talked about. Shams Irfan...
Between Red And Green
The right-wingers demolished Sheikh Abdullah’s ‘empire’ by taking their battle – Eak Vidhan, Eak Nishan, against the twin flags system to Srinagar. They, however,...
Article 35(A): The Evolution of A Protection
by M J Aslam
Any argument against Article 35(A) of the Constitution of India in isolation from the political and social conditions in which partition...
August 9, 1953: Why Sheikh Abdullah was removed?
by M J Aslam
A lot has been written about August 9, 1953, removal of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah from the chair of Kashmir’s Prime Minister. In...
When NC Ceased To Exist
If BJP undoes its erstwhile ally, the PDP in Kashmir, it may not be happening for the first time. A year after the Delhi...
Summer Slaughter
The residents in Pazipora still tremble and fret with the memories of August 10, 1990 shooting, that killed 26 civilians in a few minutes
A Withered Witness
Witness to the ups and downs in Shehr-e-Khas, Siddiq Sodaghar remembers all events between the Nala Mar filling to the worst of Sher-Bakra feud....
School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...
Quit Kashmir Movement 1946
Four years after Congress launched Quit India Movement, Sheikh Abdullah announced Quit Kashmir on May 15, 1946. It triggered massive crackdown by Hari Singh’s...
1865: Kashmir Weavers’ Agitation
By all accounts, world’s first organised labour agitation took place in Kashmir on April 29, 1865, almost 21 years before the Haymarket Affair in...
Historian Hasan Shah
One of Kashmir’s reputed chroniclers of his time, Pir Hasan Shah Khoihami (1832-98), had taken pains in collecting various documents of historic importance. Author...
Nehru’s First Speech On Kashmir
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last week, commented that had Sardar Patel been in the driving seat, “entire Kashmir would have been ours”, has triggered...
