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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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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The Gentle Colossus of Kashmiri Scholarship: Nityanand Shastri || By Bhushan Parimoo || LIVE IMAGE

 The Gentle Colossus of Kashmiri Scholarship: Nityanand Shastri || By Bhushan Parimoo || LIVE IMAGE Described variously as the “crest-jewel among the scholars of Kashmir” and “one who dispels Avidya” (ignorance); Nityanand Shastri is assigned by universal acknowledgement a foremost place among the Sanskrit scholars of Kashmir in the 20th century. He was born in…

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TALIBAN A CAUSE OF ANXIETY || BHUSHAN PARIMOO || LIVE IMAGE

TALIBAN A CAUSE OF ANXIETY ||  BHUSHAN PARIMOO || LIVE IMAGE Observing the manner  swift return to power in Afghanistan for the second time  after 20 years by the Taliban  .  Has thrown  its neighbours into confusion how to adjust to a shifting geopolitical  scenario. Afghanistan is situated at the crossroads of Central and South Asia, a  spot of geo-strategic power…

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Life and Time of Lambodhar Zutshi: The First Generation KP Icon of Science || By bhushan parimoo || LIVE IMAGE

 Life and Time of Lambodhar Zutshi: The First Generation KP Icon of Science || By bhushan parimoo || LIVE IMAGE  Ancestry and Family  Everyone  during the intervening dimly lit  night  of 16th November  1896   was tense, passing  moments of anxiety in the house  of  Late Pandit  Mukund Ram Zutshi, a joint undivided  family  situated at Chinkral Mohalla Srinagar. Legend…

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