A History’s Witness
K D Sethi is a dark old horse that has been a part of and an intimate witness to some of the most important...
Sheikh’s UN Speech
Within four months after the tribal raids led to the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir and eventually triggered the first war between India and...
Jammu 1947
As a student leader, peace activist and a staunch supporter of democracy, journalist Ved Bhasin (May 1, 1929 – November 5, 2015) faced his...
A Shariah Sultanate
Within decades of their rule when Muslims were still a minority, Shahmiri Sultans took the advice of their spiritual leaders seriously and implemented Shariah,...
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...
Parried Peacemakers
In the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan on the LoC, the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) is unable...
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...
The Big Jama’at
Had Jama’at-e-Islami not offered its resource base and the vast organizational skeleton, MUF might not had been as important as it eventually proved, reveals...
The Accord Cable
After G Parthasarthy and Mirza Afzal Beg signed the accord for their political masters on February 24, 1975, the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira...
1931, The Pellet Start
A public holiday, July 13 is a landmark day in the history of Kashmir that is being observed sincerely by both the camps in...
Zaldagar 1865
Kashmir’s first labour unrest, more than 150 years ago, was the outcome of the accumulation of immense exploitation that Kashmir’s working class was subject...
circa 1947: A Long Story
After heading Information, Libraries and Archives Departments of J&K Government and retiring as Secretary of the Cultural Academy, Khalid Bashir Ahmad started probing the...
13 July 1931: A Chapter of Kashmir
by G M Lone
A chapter of Kashmir history starts from 1846 when Sikh rule ended and the British sold Kashmir to Dogra Maharaja Gulab...
Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935
Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world...
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...
