( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) The Literature in Exile is a term that has a global dimension. Works of great literary merit have been produced by the authors who chose or were forced to live in places other than their own. The life in exile is like living in a cauldron. It boils everything and […]
( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) It is always a matter of immense joy when upon revisiting the history of an ethnic group that presently assembles everything in its power to somehow assert its identity and lays its hands on the invaluable gems passed as timeless inheritance by its elder members to be cherished and feel […]
( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Hari Krishna Kaul (1934-2009) has remained as one of the major Kashmiri playwrights of the modern era who started his literary career during his college days in early fifties, writing short stories in Hindi until mid-sixties. He then switched to Kashmiri, his mother tongue. His first collection of short stories in […]
(By: Dr. Rajesh Bhat) Signing of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh of the then Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir on October 26, 1947 was the worst shock for Pakistan and that country is still not able to reconcile to this fact! Even on the day of accession, huge displeasure was witnessed […]
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Following the October 1947 tribal raid on the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh acceded to the Indian Union after signing the Instrument of Accession with India. Along with the accession documents, Maharaja Hari Singh had also written a letter to Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India. The […]
( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) A British Missionary, James Hinton Knowles has done a Yeoman’s service to the people of Kashmir and its literature. Apart from looking after health and education of Kashmiris in 19th Century, he had added two valuable books to Kashmir’s vast library while bringing up a dictionary on Kashmiri proverbs and sayings […]
(Records, Census figures speak everything) By Dr.Rajesh Bhat If the records are to be relied upon, there has been a massive decline of Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir valley during the past 100 years! In 1921, the population of Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir, as per the 1921 Jammu and Kashmir State Census was 55,052. […]
(By Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) Who were the famous Bokhari brothers? And what was their connection to Kashmir? These questions can interest only those who have a love for modern broadcasting which inter alia means a love of languages and content creation, an eye for detail and nuances of the human condition and an indomitable will […]
(Nostalgic outpouring) By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo Nissim Ezeikel had once said that the age of literature is dead. The statement must have been made in a vivid context, which is definitely pessimistic. But little did Ezeikel know that he will be proved wrong by a community who has the innate peculiarity to bounce back at […]
(By: B. Revti) Veer Munshi does not need any formal introduction. He is one such artist who is able to transform his experiences as an exiled refugee into the language of painting. Munshi was born and brought up in the Kashmir, but like other fellow community members was forced to move out of Valley in […]
