Jammu based Kashmir Cultural Trust, a charitable organization working for the promotion of national cultural heritage especially of the Union Territory of J&K organised “Samanbal 2024’’, a two day literary and cultural festival at Writer’s Club of J&K Academy premises Jammu on January 9 and January 10, 2024. About 50 prominent Kashmiri writers, scholars and […]
(By: R. C. Ganjoo)* The Intelligence Bureau (IB), India’s internal intelligence agency, reputed to be the oldest such organization had suffered major causalities in Kashmir Valley in 1990, beginning from January 2. On January 27, when the world will be observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is an opportunity to reassert Nation’s commitment to human […]
Ever heard of lawyers telling a Chief Justice to go back to his homeland? No? But this had happened with Justice Sanjay Kishen Kaul who recently retired as the senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court. In February 2015, when Justice Sanjay Kishen Kaul was the Chief Justice of Madras High Court, he was asked by […]
As part of its outreach programme, Sahitya Akademi New Delhi organised an impressive two day function at Jammu (January 5-6, 2024) to incorporate views vis-a-vis the current literary paradigms of Kashmir’s displaced writers community. The meet also carried forward the need to preserve the literary heritage handed over to the communities through “Kashmiri Leela – […]
The Indian Shakespeare is often considered Kalidasa, a classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language. But Agha Hashar Kashmiri is one such poet, dramatist and an author who carries the epitaph of being the `Indian Shakespeare’ on his gravestone at Lahore where he was laid to rest […]
Meet Our Unsung Heroes Meet Ghulam Hassan Kashmiri …an unsung hero from Lucknow whose ancestors had settled in 18th century when Nawab of Awadh Asaf-ud-Daulah shifted base from Faizabad to Lucknow in 1775 and made the city his capital. While shifting his Capital, the Nawab had settled a large group of Kashmiris-both Hindus and Muslims […]
(From the Feudal Dogra State through Independent India to the Present-day Naya Bharat) (By: Dr. S.N. Pandita*) Introduction From a State Subject to Permanent Resident and now to a Domicile has been nearly a century-long eventful journey for the natives of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh as the citizens of India now Bharat. However, given the […]
( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo*) Kashmir Rechords in its previous blogs dated 9th and 12th December 2023 had mentioned an Englishman’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir in 1847 recorded in the form of daily entries called ‘Roznamcha’ by one Pandit Kanhaya Lal Aashiq Dehalvi and later published under the title Sair-e-Kashmir and we had in […]
(By: Dr. Rajesh Bhat) Late Shri Prem Nath Bhat, the first journalist killed during Kashmir turmoil, has become the icon of Political Groups as well as individuals against religious fundamentalism and ethnic cleansing of a vulnerable minority like Kashmiri Pandits. In life as well as in death, he was able to forge a remarkable unity […]
(By:Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)* In response to Kashmir Rechords’ Blog dated December 20, 2023 under the title “Sharda Peetha- Victim of Willful Apathy’’, (to be accessed here : https://kashmir-rechords.com/sharda-peetha-victim-of-willful-apathy/) , some of our esteemed readers came up with their quality information and opinions. By incorporating these views, Kashmir Rechords believes that not only will great value […]