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.

When Justice Bhat Mediated for Rubaiya Sayeed’s Release

(Kashmir Rechords Archival Desk) Thirty-six years have passed, yet the kidnapping of Dr. Rubaiya Sayeed—daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed—continues to cast a long, mysterious shadow over Kashmir’s turbulent history. And with the CBI further probing the case recently, the events of those nerve-racking days in December 1989 feel more alive—and more confounding—than ever. But what many from today’s generation don’t know,...
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More Documentary Evidence about Fall of Snakes and Stones in Kashmir! (Part 2)

A write-up, published by Kashmir Rechords under the title ``When Snakes, Stones Snowed in Kashmir’ (Part 1) generated a lot of interest...

When snakes, stones snowed in Kashmir! (Part 1)

By Dr. Rajesh Bhat Ever heard of snakes or stones snowing? No! then go through this snowy story. No fairy tale but buried in the...

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...

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 assembles...

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...

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.