A thought-provoking visual representing the Kashmiri Pandit exodus and the collapse of long-held assumptions about their place in Kashmir. The image evokes displacement, loss, changing social realities and the difficult reassessment of beliefs that followed the upheaval of the 1990s.
From Pamposh and Shyama Zutshi to Shammi Kapoor’s romantic Kashmir, the Valley has shared a remarkable century-long relationship with Indian cinema. Then the cameras and cinema halls disappeared amid turmoil. Now, with Bollywood returning, theatres reopening and the International Film Festival of Jammu & Kashmir bringing world cinema to the Valley, Kashmir’s cinematic journey has entered a new chapter.
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History often remembers wars, treaties and political speeches. Yet, hidden within the pages of a rare 1963 history book lies an extraordinary...
— Kashmir Rechords Special Research Feature
A faded newspaper clipping from May 1997 has resurfaced at a time when the debate surrounding the return, rehabilitation...
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.
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.
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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?
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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...
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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...
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The year was 1987. Kashmir was simmering. The scars of the Anantnag riots of 1986 — when shrines and temples of Kashmiri...