Tag: Doordarshan

When ‘JKLF’ Put ‘Independent Kashmir’ on a Postage Stamp

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) SRINAGAR: At the beginning of the armed insurgency in 1989–90, the outlawed Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) sought to project itself as the force that would create an ‘Independent Kashmir’. The symbolism was extraordinary. Militants reportedly forced people in parts of the Valley to set their watches to Pakistan Standard Time—a powerful psychological assertion that Kashmir was slipping out of India's control. The...
Articles

The Missing Link of the Atharva Veda: How Kashmir Preserved a Lost Vedic Tradition

How a rare birch-bark manuscript from Kashmir solved one of the greatest mysteries of Vedic literature. Based on B.P. Sharma's archival research and the digitised The Kashmirian Atharva-Veda, this article retraces the remarkable journey of the Paippalada Atharva Veda from Srinagar to Tübingen.
Jammu & Kashmir- Heritage
spot_img

Forgotten Broadcaster: The Untold Story of Lassa Kaul

(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo*) Every year, on February 13, the world celebrates World Radio Day, a tribute to the power of radio in shaping societies...
Jammu & Kashmir-Life Style

`Mahabharata’—Kashmir’s last peaceful TV serial

By: B Revti `Mahabharata’, a Hindi-language epic television serial based on the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, is perhaps the last television serial which the...
Articles