(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 […]
Parents in spite of the challenges they are facing should continue to strike a rapport with their children and converse in Kashmiri. This is the only way to preserve our identity as Kashmiris.
Two of their colleagues have passed away and the remaining three are now hoping that before it’s Sunset for them, justice comes their way.
Swaroop Kishan ,the first Kashmiri Umpire, is one such gentleman who had the honour of umpiring in that glorious period.
If Kashmiri continues to be the language of Kashmiri Pandits only then is a possibility of survival. A sham ritual may continue to be the odd activity here and there like burning of ‘Isband’ in the ‘Kangri’ against the loud pounding of DJs but no Rav (Roff) and Vanvun will ring in the ear. Thus, Kashmiri Pandits will cease to exist and consequently will have no claim over Kashmir.
Doordarshan Day By: Dr. Rajesh Bhat Sixty-four years ago, on September 15, 1959, Television made its formal entry in India with the launch of the first TV channel ‘`Television India”, which started broadcasting from the studios of All India Radio, Delhi on experimental basis. This experiment was followed by inauguration of Television India Channel of […]
Killing of Tika Lal Taploo Former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, Sh Lal Krishan Advani’s last visit to historic Sheetal Nath Temple of Srinagar, Kashmir was on September 15, 1989. He had to rush to Srinagar in order to pay tributes to his party colleague, Sh Tika Lal Taploo, who was killed by […]
Gwasha Lal Kaul was one of the most bold and prominent Journalist Kashmir has ever produced. Besides a historian, he used to publish “The Kashmir Chronicle’’ from Srinagar before 1947, which he had founded in 1939. Kaul, during the same period, was also the President of Kashmir Journalists Association and the founding Editor of “The […]
By: B Revti `Mahabharata’, a Hindi-language epic television serial based on the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, is perhaps the last television serial which the Kashmiris watched back then, when the peace of the bygone era still prevailed. The original airing, which consisted of a total 94 episodes, were broadcast from October 2, 1988 to 24 June […]
(A necessary reference material) First Period Second & Third Period Fourth & Fifth Period This meticulously compiled chronological Table of ancient Kashmiri Kings and dynasties (Preserved by Kashmir Rechords) is an extract from the brilliantly researched Book `The Hindu History of Kashmir’ written by H H Wilson ( 1960 edition).
