A stunning political U-turn buried in old newspaper archives reveals how the National Conference almost abandoned mainstream politics at the peak of militancy.
(Kashmir Rechords Archival Desk)
Kashmir, February 1990.Streets under siege. Militants dictating the day. Government authority collapsing. And as the Valley burned, an earthquake quietly rocked mainstream politics—one so dramatic that most contemporary observers either forgot it or never knew it happened!
Newspaper reports dated...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
On the freezing morning of January 15, 1990, a routine bus ride in Srinagar turned into a scene of horror that still haunts Kashmir’s conflict narrative. Moti Lal Bhan, an upright and quietly efficient Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer, boarded the Khanda-Nowgam-Srinagar shuttle bus unaware that this would be the last journey of his life.
At Natipora, three armed youth led by the dreaded...
Despite adopting the Metric System of weights and measures, discarding Seer and Mann to measure mass, Gaz and Kos to measure distance; Anna or Chavani to count currency, some old habits die hard, as all these words have already become part of our lexicon.
