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Kashmir’s Land to the Tiller, But not to every Tiller?

From the land reforms of 1950 to today’s migrant agricultural workforce, an examination of Kashmir’s changing relationship with land, labour, ownership and justice.
Jammu & Kashmir-Research

From Tents, Igloos to Transit Towers: The Unfinished Rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive Research) The rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits has become a story of two parallel realities. On one side stands a displaced community that, over more than three decades, has struggled to rebuild its lives, homes and livelihoods outside Kashmir—often with little or no direct government assistance for housing. On the other stands an expanding government housing programme, moving from tents and crude one-room...
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‘Radioactive’ Gulmarg: Kashmir’s long romance with rumours

In January 1979, a frightening rumour about radioactive snow sent a wave of anxiety through Kashmir. The authorities denied it, but the episode revealed something much older—the Valley’s enduring fascination with whispers, exaggeration and manufactured news.
Jammu & Kashmir-Life Style

The Forgotten Royal Elephants of Jammu

The Forgotten Royal Elephants of Jammu: When Hathithan Became Sabzi Mandi
Jammu & Kashmir-Research

When Jammu & Kashmir Donated Gold to India’s National Defence Fund

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) History often remembers wars, treaties and political speeches. Yet, hidden within the pages of a rare 1963 history book lies an extraordinary...
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When US Congman backed a ‘Secured Distt’ for Kashmiri Pandits!

— Kashmir Rechords Special Research Feature A faded newspaper clipping from May 1997 has resurfaced at a time when the debate surrounding the return, rehabilitation...
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I Am Samay. And I Have to Rehna

What does survival mean when your inheritance is memory? A Gen Z Kashmiri Pandit reflects on migrations, Shaivaite thought, identity and the instinct to remain.
Kashmiri Pandits- Post Migration

Kashmir’s 1984 Drug Warning: From Brown Sugar to Today’s Crisis

A forgotten 1984 newspaper report warned that brown sugar had begun affecting youth in Kashmir. Today, as Jammu and Kashmir intensifies its anti-drug movement, the archival account raises questions about whether early warnings were ignored.
Jammu Kashmir-Terrorism

Kashmir 1990: When Militants Banned Family Planning at Gunpoint !

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) In the winter of 1990, as the world watched the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits and the collapse of civil administration,...
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Two Forgotten Dhurrandhars of Jammu,Kashmir

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...
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Jammu’s Quest for Statehood

(Kashmir Rechords News Desk) The demand for a separate Jammu state has been raised intermittently over the years. It notably resurfaced during the 2019...
Jammu & Kashmir-Politics

Kashmir’s Vintage Cycle Allowance Order of 1943!

(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...
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Shocking! Vivekananda was denied land in Kashmir

(Kashmir Rechords News Desk) Very few people must be knowing that  Swami Vivekananda, one of the most popular monks and spiritual leaders of India...
Jammu & Kashmir-Research

Kashmir Rechords remembers Nehru through rare pictures

(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...
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