Tag: Shiva's Tandav

(Kashmir Rechords Tribute) On a modest printed page, slightly worn by time, a grainy photograph stares back—young, composed and unaware of the destiny that would soon seal his name into the roll of honour. The text beneath it is simple, almost stark: Shaheed HC/GD Mool Raj, 71 Battalion, CRPF.Date of Martyrdom: 30 April 1990. There are no grand embellishments. No elaborate citations. Just a life reduced to...

(Kashmir Rechords' Response) There is something uneasy about history being compressed into a punchline—especially when that history involves the Kashmiri Pandit resistance, a story of blood, exile and silent resilience Samay Raina, a gifted comedian of a new India, recently stepped into that uneasy terrain. His remark—that Kashmiri Pandits “only fight when the fight is fair”—was perhaps intended to provoke thought, maybe even empathy. Instead, it...