Tag: Kashmir

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...

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.
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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...

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.

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When a Kashmiri Pandit Youth was Murdered in 1987!

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) The year was 1987. Kashmir was simmering. The scars of the Anantnag riots of 1986 — when shrines and temples of Kashmiri...

Restoring Roots: Domicile Certificates to Muzaffarabad Massacre Survivors

(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...

Peep inside Pakistan on J&K’s Accession with India

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Signing of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh of the then Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir on October 26,...