History
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6.0KThe Ayatollah and his impact on Iran-e-Sagheer—Part I
On the 30th death anniversary of the supreme leader of the Iranian Revolution, many conversations renewed Ayatollah Khomeini’s Kashmir connection. In this...
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Of coups, plots and Sheikh Abdullah: A Kashmiri professor’s ‘tell-it-all’ book
Be it Sangh Parivar’s anti-special status crusade or the dusted autonomy war-cry, a shy-soft-spoken professor of the Kashmir University captures the unreported...
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How World War I busted the White Man’s myth about Kashmir
As World War I completed its 100th year on November 11, 2018, a traditional tribute in the form of war heroics and legends...
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A literary look at the Jammu Massacre: ‘The narrative caught in the Gordian Knot’
The massacre in Jammu seventy one years ago changed the demography of the region by a ruthless state sponsored slaughter of over 2.3...
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A teacher ‘shaken’ by October 27, 1947
With the arrival of the Indian Army, lives of Kashmiris changed. One among them was a village teacher living on the outskirts...
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Old wine in new bottles: Why offence is the best defence for Kashmir
Sponsored erosion of Kashmir’s ‘Special Status’ through local collaboration and courtroom campaigns is nothing new, but as the Supreme Court of India...
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Divided by War, reunited by Web: The Partition saga of two Rajouri sisters
Even after being separated and confined to the two divided parts of Kashmir due to the 1947 Indo-Pak War, two Rajouri sisters...
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Time for ‘Shajkaan’: The springtime wild mushrooms under axe and jackboot
With advent of spring every year, women vendors from Uri and other far-flung areas walk down to Baramulla town with a basket...
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Meet comrade Gulshan Majeed, the Naxalite movement’s bygone Kashmir campaigner
At a time when a certain comrade is creating a buzz in town, a textbook Marxist of yore recounts the Red movement’s fate...
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Tracing the ‘Kashmiri spark’ behind the Iranian Revolution
As the world is observing the 39th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, many in Kashmir are recounting the preparations to host the exiled...
