Nehru’s Love for Kashmir
Edwina-Nehru relationship and its impact on J&K’s fate is a favourite debate for historians, but India does not seem ready to watch what it...
The Raj Bhawan Man
Wali Mohammad who has served five governors in J&K is a living history of one of the most powerful institutions of administration. Shams Irfan...
A Galwan Story
Galwans' or Kashmir’s horse-lifters are one of the least studied and controversial tribes that dominated the narrative post-Mughal annexation of Kashmir. Historians have disagreed...
Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country...
Missing paper trail
The art of producing one of the most long lasting and durable paper was mastered in Kashmir much before the advent of paper mills....
Kashmir 1835
Carl Alexander Anselm Baron von Hügel (1795-1870), a prominent naturalist from Vienna spent more than five years in India. He spent part good time...
Kabul’s Kashmir Misrule
For almost 66 years, unruly Pathan warlords ruled Kashmir with a hunter in hand and eye on their subjects' purses. There are detailed historical...
Exceptional Mirzas’
On the state and status of governance and people in Kashmir prior and after the Dogra rule are a thick volume of letters in...
Too heavy to take along
Food adulteration was unheard of in Kashmir as every household would prepare spices themselves, even husking of rice was done in homes. With the...
Batamaloo Blaze
In 1965 summer, when army was flushing out Pakistani infiltrators in the city suburb, Batamaloo went up in flames. Half a century later, the...
A Foreigner who Panicked British Residency in Kashmir
It would be naive to absolve the British Residency of the responsibility for the repression and the resultant plight of the masses during its...
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...
Pathan Remembers
Witness to the goriest 1990s, former police officer Israr Khan was part of the set-up that escorted Kashmiri Pandits, out of Kashmir, on Jagmohan’s...
Missionaries and a Pandit
Christian missionaries have remained actively involved on Kashmir’s health and education fronts. But in all regimes, they were accused of using their influence for...
Vajpayee’s Kashmir
Bed-ridden Atal Bihari Vajpayee might be oblivious to the fact that, in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, NC and PDP made more references to...
