(Kashmir Rechords Research Desk)
The story of Sarwanand Kaul Premi is often told as one of the most tragic chapters in Kashmir's modern history. A celebrated poet, Gandhian thinker, journalist, social reformer and one of the finest literary voices of Kashmir, Premi was abducted and brutally murdered by militants in April 1990 along with his young son Virender Kaul. His martyrdom has been remembered in...
A forgotten 1935 railway campaign promoted Kashmir to travellers across undivided India. Today, the Global Kashmiri Pandit Heritage Tour seeks to reconnect a displaced community with its roots, sparking both nostalgia and debate over the meaning of return.
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In the winter of 1990, as the world watched the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits and the collapse of civil administration,...
While Bollywood celebrates fiction, have we forgotten Amar Nath of Jammu & Roshan Lal Jalla of Kashmir?
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
Cinema loves its spies—men of...
(Kashmir Rechords News Desk)
The demand for a separate Jammu state has been raised intermittently over the years. It notably resurfaced during the 2019...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
In the autumn of 1942, amidst the sweeping changes of colonial India, a curious proposal made its way through the corridors of...
(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...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
The year was 1987. Kashmir was simmering. The scars of the Anantnag riots of 1986 — when shrines and temples of Kashmiri...
(By: Dr Rajesh Bhat)*
In a historic and emotional move, Jammu and Kashmir Government has begun issuing Domicile Certificates to the survivors of the 1947...
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Signing of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh of the then Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir on October 26,...
J N Zutshi is credited to have set up two Radio Stations in Jammu and Kashmir---first at Jammu on December 1, 1947 and then at Srinagar on July 1, 1948 in order to counter the malicious Pakistani propaganda against India.
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
The Intelligence Bureau (IB), India's internal intelligence agency, reputed to be the oldest such organization had suffered major causalities in Kashmir Valley...
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When the tribal raiders from Pakistan entered Kashmir in October 1947, the Valley was plunged into chaos. But nowhere was the suffering...