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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.
1984 Archives debunk the 1987 Kashmir Myth
A rare newspaper report from May 1984 documents attacks on Kashmiri Pandit temples and communal violence in Kashmir, indicating that the minority community faced growing insecurity years before the disputed 1987 elections. The archival record places the 1986 Anantnag riots and the 1990 exodus within a longer, documented chronology of escalating events, offering an important historical perspective on the Kashmir conflict.
Kashmir’s Minorities & Global Conflicts: A Historical Analysis
From Bhutto's execution in 1979 to the Al-Aqsa protests, the US bombing of Libya and the Salman Rushdie controversy, rare newspaper archives reveal how international crises repeatedly triggered unrest in Kashmir, with local minorities often bearing the consequences of conflicts far beyond the Valley.
When Salman Rushdie Visited Kashmir
In May 1983, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie visited Kashmir, gave a rare interview to Radio Kashmir Srinagar and interacted with students at SP College. Within six years, the publication of The Satanic Verses transformed him from a celebrated literary guest into the centre of protests across Kashmir. Based on rare photographs and newspaper archives preserved by Kashmir Rechords, this feature reconstructs one of the Valley's forgotten cultural stories.
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