Tag: Kashmir History

From Tokyo to Jammu: The Japanese Scholar Who Preserved Dogri Folklore

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) At a time when Dogri lived in the voices of its people but not in the pages of serious scholarship, when its own custodians failed to document it for the world, a young woman from faraway Japan stepped in to do what many closer home did not. Her name was Noriko Mayeda. In the early 1960s, she arrived not as a tourist, but as...

Kashmiri Pandits 1990 UN Appeal | Untold Exodus Story!

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) The early 1990s marked one of the most painful chapters in the history of Kashmir. As violence escalated across the Valley, the mass migration of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 left an entire community uprooted, disoriented and largely unsupported by the administration of the time. Amid fear, uncertainty, and displacement, a remarkable yet often overlooked episode unfolded—an appeal to the global conscience. In the...
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The Spy Who Came Back Forgotten: Kashmir’s Real Dhurandhar

Roshan Lal Jalla, a Kashmiri intelligence operative, spent 15 years in Pakistani prisons after being captured in 1972. Tortured, disowned, and denied rehabilitation upon...

When Mufti Sayeed Ordered a Ban on  Kashmiri Pandit Exodus in April 1990!

In April 1990, Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed issued a little-known directive to halt the migration of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley, a decision that remains largely forgotten today.