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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...
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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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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

Can Kashmir produce another Santosh?

Considering the current situation, it is unlikely that another Santosh may emerge from Kashmir, as the very soul of Kashmir stands brutalised as on date. But since strange are the ways of the Divine, the seed may lie embedded to sprout in the womb of future.
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 A Kashmiri Samavar in Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s house!

Kashmir Rechords Exclusive A renovated old house at village Banga Khatkar Kalan some 40 kilometers from Jallandhar, Punjab  has assumed the status of no...
Jammu & Kashmir-Research