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 working journalist for having worked even at the age of 92. Born on January 1, 1909, Baldev Prasad Sharma, popularly known as `B P Sharma’,…
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 the cultural statement of sorts, the artist, Ashok Kak known as “Ismaal” the affable, meek and wayward simpleton, adolescent who served as the domestic help…
A rare publication in memory of Bhagwan Gopi Nath Ji
The publication carries rare photographs of Bhagwan Gopi Nath Ji, facsimile of two Omkar symbols in Sharda, in Bhagwan Gopi Nath Ji’s own handwriting, besides life and history of some other Hindu and Muslim saints of Kashmir.
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 everything in its power to somehow assert its identity and lays its hands on the invaluable gems passed as timeless inheritance by its elder members…