संस्मरण || घाव जो कभी नहीं भरे || By Dr. Agnishekhar || LIVE IMAGE

  ●दिल्ली में एकबार कश्मीर पर एक परिचर्चा के दौरान जब मेरा परिचय निर्वासन में जी रहे कवि और नागरिक के रूप में दिया गया और मुझसे मेरा पक्ष रखने से पहले यह भी अपेक्षा की गयी कि मैं निर्वासन-चेतना के बारे में कुछ बताऊं तो मैंने कहा था :  ●’निर्वासन एक अदीख रिसते  हुए…

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Jammu Muslim at a Cross Roads || Bhushan Parimoo || LIVE IMAGE

Under placid waters of humanity which is made to appear as normal is deceptive in jammu division. Every kind of dirt in shape of mistrust acrimony has been settling slowly but steadily ever since the partition without any respite at any given time. Off recent every kindof situation emerging wittingly or unwittingly is being seen…

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Happy Lohri 2022 || Dulla Bhatti || The Landlord || Real Story || Haroon Khalid || LIVE IMAGE

Happy Lohri 2022 || Dulla Bhatti || The Landlord || Real Story || Haroon Khalid || LIVE IMAGE  On Lohri, remembering Dulla Bhatti, the landlord who stood up to the mighty Akbar Legend goes that the rebel chieftain saved two Brahmin girls from the emperor and married them off on the day of the winter…

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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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A Million dollar question || Bhushan Parimoo ||LIVE IMAGE

Shiv Mandir Kupwara, Kashmir  The demand for the Kashmiri Hindu Shrines and Religious Places Management Bill  that has been projected  after the mass  exodus of 1990 .  Surfaced out of blue  once again inadvertently after deep slumber  that became a matter of deliberation in the social media  once more .  The reason for a news item  published 07 May, 2015, in the regard of…

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Wakhan & Footprints of Sir Aurel Stein || by Bushan Parimoo || LIVE IMAGE

The Wakhan Corridor a  high mountain valley,  sparsely populate with about  12,000 inhabitants, in the shape of  a narrow  strip in Afghanistan  that extends to   China  shouldering with th a part of Gilgit baltistan belt of the Jammu  and Kashmir state, A trade route through the valley has been used by travellers going to and from East, South and Central Asia since…

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