School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...
Quit Kashmir Movement 1946
Four years after Congress launched Quit India Movement, Sheikh Abdullah announced Quit Kashmir on May 15, 1946. It triggered massive crackdown by Hari Singh’s...
1865: Kashmir Weavers’ Agitation
By all accounts, world’s first organised labour agitation took place in Kashmir on April 29, 1865, almost 21 years before the Haymarket Affair in...
Historian Hasan Shah
One of Kashmir’s reputed chroniclers of his time, Pir Hasan Shah Khoihami (1832-98), had taken pains in collecting various documents of historic importance. Author...
Nehru’s First Speech On Kashmir
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last week, commented that had Sardar Patel been in the driving seat, “entire Kashmir would have been ours”, has triggered...
In Maqbool Bhat’s Trehgam
For the last 30 years, Kashmir has been freezing life to remember Maqbool Bhat, the man who was born out of his execution in...
Managing 1947 Mayhem
After the erstwhile J&K state was sliced into two halves amid massive demographic upheavals, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was the...
Did Sheikh Abdullah go to office in a car seized from Air Marshall Asgar...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The death of Air Marshal Asgar Khan has triggered a chain of mournings and remembrances on the social websites. The reason:...
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...
Kandahar’s Qizilbash
From Kashmir’s first matriculate in the late nineteenth century to the poet of ‘A Country Without A Post Office’, the successive generations of Qizilbash...
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...
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...
Pulwama’s Martyrs Day
The follow up to 1931 upheavals in Kashmir are scattered and sketchy. Almost 500 people were killed across Kashmir in the protests that erupted...
Prelude to 35A
A God forsaken country, located deep into Himalayas, Kashmir would play host to anybody and everybody. Criminals, deserters, rebels and preachers – people with...
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...
