Pandit Sarvanand Koul ‘Premi’: A Legendary Poet and Translator || Rajnath Bhat || LIVE IMAGE

Pandit Sarvanand Koul ‘Premi’            Pandit Sarvanand Koul ‘Premi’ is a household name across Kashmir. His talent, simplicity, humbleness, intelligence impressed every person who came into his contact or who read his creative writing in the form of poetry or prose. He was widely read, a polyglot and a prolific writer who…

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The Saga of Francis Younghusband and his Kashmiri saviours – Shukar Ali || By Bhushan Parimoo || LIVE IMAGE

The name Younghusband though sounds strange, however, is not unfamiliar to Kashmiris. Well entrenched in the contemporary history of Kashmir, Francis Younghusband was a British Resident in Kashmir for two years between 1906 and 1908 when the state was under the rule of the third Dogra ruler, Maharaja Pratap Singh. Their friendship and personal bonhomie…

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Kashmiri Pandits: From Gens Religiosissima to Religious Scarecrows || Bhushan Parimoo || LIVE IMAGE

What happened in Kashmir the other day has never happened ever before in the long annals of  the history of Kashmir . The incident was marked by the laying of the foundation stone of the Sharda Temple near the actual Line of Control between India and Pakistan inKarnah tehsil , at the last village   Tithwal at…

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