Tag: Kashmir

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...

Maqbool Sherwani: NC’s Forgotten Hero, Indian Army’s Icon

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Some stories in Kashmir's modern history refuse to disappear, even when political circumstances make their remembrance uncomfortable. Maqbool Sherwani, a National Conference activist from Baramulla who was executed by tribal raiders on November 7, 1947, is one such figure. The young man who misguided raiders According to historical accounts, Maqbool Sherwani deliberately misdirected the advancing raiders, sending groups along wrong routes and creating...
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Justice for Sarla Bhat and Many Others Who Never got it

The Unfinished stories of other Kashmiri Pandits who refused to leave Kashmir in 1990! (Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) It has taken more than three decades,...

Ban it, and they will read it.

Banning 25 Books in J&K: Shielding Minds or Selling Narratives? The government’s recent ban on “secessionist” literature may have done the opposite of its intent...

Bansi Parimu: The Forgotten Flame of Kashmiri Modernism

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Has the visionary artist, activist and cultural conscience-keeper faded from the memory of his own people? By all accounts, Bansi Parimu ( Parimoo),...

The Jagmohan Hangover

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)   It seems the ghost of Governor Jagmohan continues to haunt some people's WhatsApp groups and social media timelines more persistently than facts...

Amarnath Vaishnavi: From Opposing Homeland to Championing It

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Amarnath Vaishnavi (August 24, 1925 – July 1, 2012), revered today as the “Father of the Kashmiri Pandit Community,” remains one of...

Kashmiri Pandits, C/o Tent No…….!

   From Palatial Homes to Tent Numbers: The Unwritten Obituaries of Exile (Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)   By the time Prem Nath Bhat, a prosperous landowner from Watarkhani...

Sabotaged Returns: Why Kashmiri Pandits Still Remain in Exile?

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Despite multiple policy pushes, emotional appeals and community-driven initiatives, the return of Kashmiri Pandits to their homeland has remained elusive for over...

The Vanishing Spring Shrines of Kashmir

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Trisandhya, south of Divalgam, flowed thrice daily during Baisakhi—its rhythm so divine that Persian poets composed verses about it.Rudra Sandhya,...

Dr. Sandeep Mawa: Disrupting the Silence of Exile

By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo * His name is now synonymous with an unsettling question — what if one refuses to stay exiled? A Presence that Challenges...

A Century-Long Rail Dream Comes True: From Dogra Vision to Vande Bharat

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)   It was a dream that once travelled in whispers through the stone-courtyards of Dogra Palaces and echoed in the steam whistles of...

One Man, 40 Bullets, and a Stand That Still Echoes in Bhaderwah!

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) He survived displacement, inspired a town, defied terror—and died a hero. Yet outside Bhaderwah, few remember Ruchir Kumar Koul ! In the heart...

Kheer Bhawani Mela: 35 Yrs in Exile, Countless Yrs of Faith

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) And as long as even one devotee whispers a prayer under its Chinar canopy, the soul of the Kheer Bhawani Mela remains...