Tag: Kashmir

Beyond Samay Raina’s Statement: The Untold Resistance of Kashmiri Pandits

(Kashmir Rechords' Response) There is something uneasy about history being compressed into a punchline—especially when that history involves the Kashmiri Pandit resistance, a story of blood, exile and silent resilience Samay Raina, a gifted comedian of a new India, recently stepped into that uneasy terrain. His remark—that Kashmiri Pandits “only fight when the fight is fair”—was perhaps intended to provoke thought, maybe even empathy. Instead, it...
News & Current Affairs

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...
Jammu & Kashmir- Heritage
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BP Sharma— J&K’s Walking Encyclopedia

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Meet Baldev Prasad Sharma of Jammu and Kashmir who was listed in the Limca Book of Records for becoming the oldest...
Jammu & Kashmir- Heritage

A Kashmiri Pandit diplomat, a spy and a Historian of yesteryears buried in Delhi !

www.kashmir-rechords.com Pandit Mohan Lal Kashmiri  alias Mirza Quli Kashmiri alias Agha Hassan Jan Kashmiri-----  sounds interesting! But that is how this polyonymous from Zutshi clan...
Jammu & Kashmir-Research

Makhzan Asrar—A Kashmiri Pandit’s Urdu gift

( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) It is always a matter of immense joy when upon revisiting the history of an ethnic group that presently assembles...
Books

Hari Krishna Kaul–  A celebrated Kashmiri Writer

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Hari Krishna Kaul (1934-2009) has remained as one of the major Kashmiri playwrights of the modern era who started his...
Books

Massive decline of Kashmiri Pandits during 100 years

(Records, Census figures speak everything) If the records are to be relied upon, there has been a massive decline of Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir...
Jammu & Kashmir-Research

All India Radio’s  Bokhari Brothers…  The Kashmir Connection

(By Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) Who were the famous Bokhari brothers? And what was their connection to Kashmir? These questions can interest only those who have...
Media

Literature in Exile

By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo Nissim Ezeikel had once said that the age of literature is dead. The statement must have been made in a vivid...
Books

I Was a Kashmiri Pandit— A Mukhbir!

(By: B. Revti) Veer Munshi does not need any formal introduction. He is one such artist who is able to transform his experiences as an...
Kashmiri Pandits- Post Migration

Kashmir, Gavaskar and Imran

  By Dr. Rajesh Bhat Legends like Sunil Gavaskar and Imran Khan are icons. It is entirely another matter while the former continues to hog limelight...
Jammu & Kashmir-Life Style

Matric was Basic Qualification to fly with IAF

During the past over nine decades, the Indian Air Force has proved its mettle in terms of necessary skills and abilities. When IAF...
Research

Koshur—-Is it The End?

Parents in spite of the challenges they are facing should continue to strike a rapport with their children and converse in Kashmiri. This is the only way to preserve our identity as Kashmiris.
Books

Ramanujacharya’s   deep spiritual connect with Kashmir

Ramanujacharya and his disciple Kooresha went on foot to Kashmir.  Upon receiving them ,the King of Kashmir and his court-scholars were astounded by Ramanuja’s profound knowledge but had expressed their reservations to even permit Ramanujacharya to make a copy of the text.
Jammu & Kashmir- Heritage