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...
The Road Less Travelled
In Kashmîr, some brave men and women give up their jobs with disposable incomes and get into sustainable entrepreneurial activities. Babra Wani explores tales...
Doctor’s Civil Service
The only son of his parents, Ghulam Maya Din (Mohiuddin) wanted to be an engineer but landed in a medical school. While bracing for...
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...
Rediscovering the Samovar
Shazia Jan's transformation of the traditional charcoal-fed Samovar into modern prototypes fuelled by LPG and electricity has fetched her recognition at the highest level,...
The Schools Under Stress
In Jammu and Kashmir, 40.89 percent of private school teachers use only 19.25% of the entire educational infrastructure to teach 45.60 percent of the...
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...
Kashmir: Career Coercion
With career options shrinking to quite a few in Kashmir, scores of students are attempting to achieve targets their parents failed to hit for...
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...
