Kashmir Rechords

Kashmir Rechords is a digital media and cultural platform dedicated to documenting, preserving and promoting the rich artistic, literary and historical heritage of Jammu & Kashmir. It serves as a bridge between tradition and contemporary expression, highlighting unsung heroes, forgotten legacies and creative voices from the region.

Grave Debates: The Mystery of Habba Khatoon’s Final Resting Place Rekindles a Cultural Storm

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 Khatoon, the poetess whose verses once made mountains weep? For generations, Kashmiris have revered Habba Khatoon as the “Nightingale of Kashmir” — a poetess whose songs of love and longing transcended time. But now, her grave has become the subject...
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Capt Diwan Singh—Maharaja Hari Singh’s ADC

Capt Diwan Singh, known as ADC to Maharaja Hari Singh, the last ruler of Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir shall always be remembered...

World Cup 2011: When Dhoni tonsured his head!

A day after India's historic World Cup triumph on April 2,  2011, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was spotted in a new look with his...

Urdu Satire That We Miss

Fikr Taunsvi --- Born as Ram Lal Bhatia

BP Sharma— J&K’s Walking Encyclopedia

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Meet Baldev Prasad Sharma of Jammu and Kashmir who was listed in the Limca Book of Records for becoming the oldest...

Ashok Kak—- Kashmir’s Cultural Icon

(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) Among one of the surviving artists of Kashmir’s exalted and most popular daily radio soap opera “Zoondab” which has now become...

A Kashmiri Pandit diplomat, a spy and a Historian of yesteryears buried in Delhi !

www.kashmir-rechords.com Pandit Mohan Lal Kashmiri  alias Mirza Quli Kashmiri alias Agha Hassan Jan Kashmiri-----  sounds interesting! But that is how this polyonymous from Zutshi clan...

Arvind Gigoo…. The Underrated Writer

( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) The Literature in Exile is a term that has a global dimension. Works of great literary merit have been produced...

Makhzan Asrar—A Kashmiri Pandit’s Urdu gift

( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) It is always a matter of immense joy when upon revisiting the history of an ethnic group that presently...

Hari Krishna Kaul–  A celebrated Kashmiri Writer

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Hari Krishna Kaul (1934-2009) has remained as one of the major Kashmiri playwrights of the modern era who started his...

Cricketers and Gladiators

(By: K K Lidhoo) Roman kings in order to divert attention from pressing problems faced by the public and the likely unrest these would cause...

Maharaja Hari Singh’s letter to Lord Mountbatten `In Haste’

(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...

Kalhana’s Rajtarangini—how it got revealed?

Kalhana’s Rajtarangini which has made Kashmir famous all over the world and accorded it unique credit  in terms of being the only region where there was an established tradition of historiography unlike anywhere in the subcontinent.