Tracing Kashmir Birds
Kashmir’s impressive biodiversity has attracted experts and specialists for a long time. British Indian civil servant and a respected nineteenth-century Scottish naturalist, James Davidson...
1658: A Frenchman in Mughal Kashmir
When a French farmer’s physician son, François Bernier accompanied the Mughal Emperor to Srinagar in 1658 summer, he left a detailed account of Kashmir’s...
Mansur Al Hallaj’s Kashmir Sojourn
Islam’s controversial Sufi, poet and teacher Mansoor Al-Ḥallāj (858–922), who was brutally executed by the Abbasid caliphate for political reasons rather than his ecstatic...
Al-Biruni’s Kashmir
Mehmood Gaznavi attempted to wrest Kashmir in the eleventh century twice and failed. The failed invasions, however, gave the Gaznavid court a lot of...
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...
Tamed, Not Caged
Chitralekha Zutshi’s book, Sheikh Abdullah – The Caged Lion of Kashmir is by far the most perceptive work on Abdullah but is short of...
1270s: Marco Polo’s Kashmir
Italian traveller Marco Polo visited Kashmir somewhere in 1271-75 and recorded a few passages about the life and culture of a place rendered inaccessible...
Kashmir’s Oil Pressers
Before edible oil extraction was mechanised, Kashmir had a roaring cottage industry of traditional oil pressers who would use bullocks to convert various seeds...
630 AD: Hiuen Tsang’s Kashmir
In search of the text and practices of his faith, Chinese Buddhist monk Hiuen Tsang spent two years in Kashmir somewhere around 630 AD....
Kashmir In the Fourth Century BC
Years after Alexander entered India, Indo-Greek relations cemented to the extent that the Greek kings appointed emissaries and ambassadors in the region. Megasthenes, one...
Pul Se Pul Tak: Rediscovering The City of Bridges
Broadcast journalist, Iqra Akhoon who produced a rare and well-received heritage web series focusing on the life and times around the historic bridges of Srinagar, jots...
(Un)Making Art 370
In the Supreme Court, a battery of top constitutional lawyers revisited more than 70 years of the making and unmaking of Article 370 while...
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...
Unveiling Harwan
The archaeological site at Harwan, discovered for the first time in 1895, offers fascinating details about Kashmir’s rich Buddhist past during the Kushana and...
Kashmir’s Media Associations
With many printing presses and lot many newspapers around, the journalists in Jammu and Kashmir attempted and constituted many associations to articulate the issue...
