While All India Radio celebrates “90 years of broadcasting,” the institution’s forgotten martyrs remain absent from official memory. From M. L. Manchanda’s brutal killing during Punjab militancy to the assassination of Lassa Kaul in Kashmir, this article revisits the sacrifices made by broadcasters who kept India’s airwaves alive during some of the nation’s darkest decades.
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
When the tragic mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 is recalled, it is often framed as the first great rupture in the community’s modern history. Some narratives go further back, listing seven migrations across centuries. Yet, buried deep in archives and largely absent from public discourse, lies a crucial, well-documented migration that took place soon after Independence, between 1947 and 1954,...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
Following the October 1947 tribal raid on the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh acceded to the Indian Union after...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
Signing of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh of the then Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir on October 26, 1947...
By: Kashmir Rechords Editorial Desk
A new storm is sweeping through Jammu and Kashmir’s literary and cultural circles. The spark? A centuries-old question: Where lies Habba...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
Was it a rogue statement… a political misadventure… or something far more calculated?
Nearly three decades later, a chilling question still lingers over the...
(Kashmir Rechords Report)
It was December 1989 when Pakistan launched its biggest-ever military exercise, Zarb-e-Momin, creating an imaginary war-like situation under a carefully crafted plan...
By: Kashmir Rechords Archival Desk
Few people remember that November 7, 1947 marks one of the most decisive days in India’s post-Independence history — the...
(By: Dr Rajesh Bhat)*
In a historic and emotional move, Jammu and Kashmir Government has begun issuing Domicile Certificates to the survivors of the 1947 ...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
An intriguing historical account in Catholic Churches in Jammu & Kashmir by noted Kashmiri author, educator and social worker Predhuman K. Joseph Dhar, and carried in the book The Great People of Jammu and Kashmir, sheds fascinating light on Christian History in Kashmir and how Catholic missions gradually became part of the social and educational landscape of the region.
The narrative begins...
