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...
A photograph of 1920 shows the Kashmiri professionals taking the tourists to Gulmarg in palkis.

1853: A Tourist On Foot

An unknown Englishman has penned in his peculiar language his long trek from Shimla to Srinagar via Tibet on foot in the summer of...
Sheikh Abdullah and Indira Gandhi

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...
KL Images: Faisal ahmed Fazeel

Pellets & Classroom

A number of students who were hit by the pellets during last two unrests have faced problems in continuation of their studies. While most...

Scholarships

Bond University Transformer Funding for International Students in Australia, 2019 Bond University Application Deadline: September 6, 2019 Apply Now Aberystwyth University International Excellence Undergraduate Scholarships in the UK Aberystwyth...
A November 1949 photograph showing Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Prime Minister of J&K, ploughing in a field as part of his ‘Grow More Food programme’.

Costly Land Reforms

In the history of Kashmir, land to tiller is the biggest intervention that lacks parallels. But these proved very costly for Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah,...

Scholarships

South-East Asia Scholarships for International Students in UK, 2019-2020 University of Salford Application Deadline: Open for September 2019 Apply Now UNSW Dr Vincent Lo Asia Undergraduate Scholarships in...
Shabir Kohli’s home at Hardu kichr, Ashmuqam. KL Image: Aaqib Hyder

A Mountainous Feat

A young boy from a modest background put in his all efforts and managed cracking NEET examination with flying colours. Now the tensions in...
Sonam Wangchuk (KL Image by Shuaib Wani) Kashmir Life Image by Shuaib Wani

‘Ice Stupas Were Copied In Switzerland, Skardu, Peru and Sikkim’

People who watched Amir Khan’s Three Idiots might not have forgotten the character named Phunsukh Wangdu. He is a living legend of Ladakh who...

Scholarships

Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarships in Public Policy at the University of Queensland in Australia, 2019 University of Queensland Applications Deadline: July 15, 2019 Apply Now Science Graduate International...

Delimitating Debate

Powerful Modi government is reportedly toying with the idea of a fresh delimitation for Kashmir assembly by undoing a legislative freeze. While there is...

Muslim Conference Conversion

One of the landmark decisions in Kashmir’s history was the conversion of the Muslim Conference into National Conference in 1939. Why and how this...

Scholarships

JUST Programme for International Students in China, 2019 Jiangsu University of Science and Technology – JUST Application Deadline: June 20, 2019 Apply Now Government of Colombia 50 Postgraduate...
An 1890 photograph of Khanqah and its adjoining homes taken from the banks of Jhelum.

Like Father, Like Son

A decade after Amir-e-Kabir’s departure, his son came with 300 preachers. But his nearly two-decade-long sojourn in Srinagar witnessed a chain of events, still...

Srinagar Fires 1892

Kashmir was always interesting and enigmatic. Charles Adolphus Murray, the 7th Earl of Dunmore was in Srinagar in May 1892, when it went up...