Op Gibraltar
Half a century eclipsed since Pakistani dictator Ayub Khan pushed regulars disguised as Mujahedeen behind enemy lines into Kashmir thinking it would fetch him...
Cashmere in Jallianwala Bagh
As tens of thousands of Kashmiris were pushed out of the valley by hunger, poverty, exploitation and fortune-hunting during despotic Pathan, Sikh and Dogra...
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,...
Sheikh Abdullah, A CIA Profile
April 8, 1964 J&K state government released Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah after withdrawing the Kashmir conspiracy case. It was a major development that was written...
Trout Take Off In Kashmir
Introducing trout was one of the many contributions that Raj made during Kashmir’s darkest era in the nineteenth century. Offering details of how the...
Kashmir: A Lawrence Speech
Walter R Lawrence, one of the most popular British India officers in Kashmir, known commonly as Lawrence Sahab, was an authority on a region...
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...
Rare Survivor
Barely eight and he lost his family in 1947 riots with Hari Singh in town. Not knowing why they were killing each other, he...
Do You Know When China Formally Got Involved In Kashmir?
by Mohammad Sayeed Malik
Even over half a century later question remains unanswered as to why had the Kashmir leader courted trouble by meeting Zhou...
Finding Kundalwan
Throughout last century, Kashmiri researchers had been trying to pinpoint the spot where the fourth Buddhist conference took place almost two millennia ago. But...
(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...
Gandhi And Kashmir
In order to imagine how Mahatma Gandhi would have responded to Kashmir’s present situation, it is important to understand Gandhi’s long Kashmir story first...
The Fall of The Feudal’s?
What has become of the erstwhile Zaildar families who dominated the society till the 1950s? Have they reconciled with the loss of paisa, power...
1903’s Great Flood
Kashmir was inundated by a great flood in 1903. Jhelum flowed down with such a huge discharge that parts of M A Road remained...
1905 Floods: A First Hand Account
A British author T R Swinburne along with many of his friends was visiting Kashmir when they were caught in the floods in 1905,...
