Tag: Kashmir Archives

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.

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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Pamposh: The first colour feature made, processed in India was born in Kashmir

n the early 1950s, Kashmir became the unlikely birthplace of a landmark in Indian colour cinema. Ezra Mir’s Pamposh, shot around Dal Lake in 1951–52, was India’s first colour feature domestically produced and processed after Independence. It travelled to Cannes in 1954, but the film itself has since vanished. Today, rare photographs, including an exclusive 1953 Blitz image preserved by Kashmir Rechords, and archival material documented by SAGE researchers offer tantalising glimpses of a lost cinematic Kashmir.

Grave Debates: The Mystery of Habba Khatoon’s Final Resting Place Rekindles a Cultural Storm

By: Kashmir Rechords Editorial Desk A new storm is sweeping through Jammu and Kashmir’s literary and cultural circles. The spark? A centuries-old question: Where lies...