Kashmir RechordsAn Initiative of Kashmir Rechords Foundation

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) The year was 1987. Kashmir was simmering. The scars of the Anantnag riots of 1986 — when shrines and temples of Kashmiri Pandits were vandalized — were still fresh. The State’s law and order machinery was in disarray, shaken further by the controversial closure of the Darbar Move in October that year. Amid this charged atmosphere, the small, vulnerable community of Kashmiri...

(Kashmir Rechords Desk) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday falls on November 14 and the day is every year celebrated as Children’s Day.  As the first Prime Minister of the Independent India (1947–64), Nehru established the Parliamentary government and became noted for his nonaligned policies in foreign affairs.  Nehru has been a multi-dimensional personality—a  Prime Minister, a writer, a historian,  a socialist and  above all from Kashmir ancestry....