(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)* February 13, 1990: Director Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar, Lassa Kaul is shot dead by terrorists who considered him a stumbling block in meeting their nefarious designs. Rumours were then agog that some of his colleagues/insiders were involved in facilitating his murder by passing on the information to terrorists about his whereabouts and […]
Kashmir Rechords Exclusive A piece of tragic history lies buried under picturesque area of Kulgam, Kashmir district’s snow covered Houen Heng (Dog’s Horn) peak, 4200 meters above sea level. Fifty-eight years ago, this day on February 7, 1966, a Fokker F 27 Indian Airline aircraft veered 12 miles off its course, crashing straight into the […]
Srinagar did not sleep on January 19, 1990 night for various reasons. While it was a darkest night in the history of India, as Kashmiri Pandits had to leave their homes and hearths, Kashmiri Muslims too had to face a trauma of another kind! Rumourmongers had taken control of most of the mosques and all […]
(Sair-e-Kashmir Part V) ( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) Kashmir Rechords in its previous four blogs had mentioned Englishman Mr. Winter Bedim’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 in the form of the book under the title Sair-e-Kashmir. In […]
As National Youth Day is celebrated every year on January 12 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, one of the most popular monks and spiritual leaders of India, very few people must be knowing that the Swami was denied a piece of land for establishing a Monastery and a Sanskrit College in Kashmir! […]
(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 […]
(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: Dr. Rajesh Bhat) Very few young journalists in Jammu and Kashmir know about Mr O. N. Koul, one of the most respected journalists who had a mastery over Economics and knew well his job of both reporting and editing. The first elected President of Press Club of Jammu and the former Media Advisor to Jammu […]
(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo) Pandit Dina Nath Yaksh’s life resembles that of a quintessential Rishi who exemplified what in Indian spiritual thought process is known as Karamyogi. Here was a man with a rare missionary zeal. Very few know about this colossal figure and Sanskrit’s forgotten hero! The whole of India is indebted to what […]