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....
13 July 1931: A Chapter of Kashmir
by G M Lone
A chapter of Kashmir history starts from 1846 when Sikh rule ended and the British sold Kashmir to Dogra Maharaja Gulab...
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
Ghulam Mohammad Mir
(September 21, 1949 - December 16, 1993)
A man, who jumped into politics, contested an election unsuccessfully and was eventually killed as a...
A Foreigner who Panicked British Residency in Kashmir
It would be naive to absolve the British Residency of the responsibility for the repression and the resultant plight of the masses during its...
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
Mohammad Sultan Bhat
(May 27, 1945 – August 13, 1996)
A Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) worker since he was 15 years old, Mohammad Sultan Bhat had contested assembly elections...
JKLF’s Israel Blitzkrieg!
The dramatic abduction and release of an Israeli tourist in early nineties by the ‘powerful’ Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on ‘humanitarian grounds’...
Sheikh’s UN Speech
Within four months after the tribal raids led to the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir and eventually triggered the first war between India and...
Food for Thought
by Zubair Lone
Recently, the Global Nutrition Report 2017 was released at the Global Nutrition Summit in Milan, Italy. It acts as an independent report card...
Zaldagar 1865
Kashmir’s first labour unrest, more than 150 years ago, was the outcome of the accumulation of immense exploitation that Kashmir’s working class was subject...
OBE Is The Alternative
by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah
Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days affair in a year. These...
Neglected Discoveries
What lies beneath is the question that has baffled archeologists for long. Perhaps the answer lies in discoveries made on and off. But an...
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...
Model in Mountains
At seven his father became part of Kashmir’s surging collateral damage and at 14 he was formally admitted to an orphanage. Nine years later,...
Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935
Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world...
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...
