State Subject: The Evolution Story
Right now when Kashmiri’s entire political class has launched a serious campaign to preserve the demographic composition of J&K, Dr Nitin Chandel details how...
My Friend Modi
Last week when Modi was sworn in as India’s PM, a small village in Budgam district jogged their memories to remember the man who...
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...
Moved to greener pastures
Cattle grazers in villages who were a common feature of life in rural Kashmir have given up the occupation with changing lifestyles. Mir Farhat...
Returning the Debt
Within less than seven decades after the British Christian Missionaries introduced the modern allopathic system of medicine to Kashmir, a Srinagar-based doctor, Dr Ghulam...
Jinnah’s Kashmir Controversy (I)
Noted Kashmir expert, commentator and author, AG Noorani’s utterance that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah rejected Lord Mountbatten’s proposal on November 01, 1947 and...
The Forest Folklore
The battle against smuggling has made Kashmir literally beg for cheap inter-continental timber that now sustains a huge economy. With scores of compartments totally...
Understanding Kashmiri
The only Englishman who is more famous in Kashmir than the UK is Sir Walter R Lawrence, the man who’s functioning as Kashmir’s land...
A Statesman
In 1947, Kashmir was literally independent for many fortnights. After rumours about the major princely state joining India, there was Poonch rebellion and tribal...
Indira, India and Sheikh
When Pandit Nehru sacked Sheikh Abdullah in 1953 and sent him to jail, the heir apparent Indira Gandhi was desperate to visit him in...
A Sangh Doctor’s Mission Article 370
Founder of Jana Sangh Dr Syama Prasad Mookerji was the first fighter against Article 370. Historian Ashiq Hussain Bhat revisits the tumultuous 1952-53 to...
Costs of Occupation
When troops handed over keys of sports complex Bijbehara to displaced bat manufactures after 23 years it brought back bitter memories of the past....
The Fall of Zaina Kadal
By building a bridge on Zaina Kadal, Budshah created access between the two halves of the city. But this was one of few projects...
Moorcroft’s Kashmir Days
East India Company’s veterinarian and stud manager, William Moorcroft is the most referred author about early nineteenth century Kashmir. While living in Srinagar between...
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...
