Tag: Poet

(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...

(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...