The Kashmir -History

The Kashmir -History
Kashmiri Pandits who have left the Saffron Valley, feel the pain and agony of migration.
Myth and reality move together in the Saffron Valley of mystic splendor. The reclamation of land from Satisar created certain complications. The Saraswati River that flowed into the eastern Punjab, Rajasthan, Sind and other parts of Indian subcontinent suddenly [...]

Nicknames of Kashmiri Pandits

Nicknames
Lovers
A nickname, says Hazlitt, is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man, yet the Kashmiris have shown the unparalleled endurance to bear this hardest stone Pleased with their ‘devotion’ he (Mr. Devil) seems to have gifted this stone to them (Kashmiri) for ever. Love of nicknames is mixed in the blood [...]

Don’t be apologetic about Kashmir

Don’t be apologetic about Kashmir
February 12th, 2009 By Nitish Sengupta
 It is strange that a section of the Indian public, small though it is, has nowadays become apologetic about India’s role in Jammu and Kashmir. True, there have been cases of human rights violations in recent years on the part of the security forces, but that [...]

India ranks 6th among terror affected countries

India ranks 6th among terror affected countries
India is ranked sixth in a list of countries affected by terrorism, with over 4,100 such incidents recorded in the past 34 years, according to an international database on terrorism.
The ‘Global Terrorism Database’, maintained at the University of Maryland by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and [...]

A UNIQUE EXHIBITION ON TERRORISM UNLEASHED

François Gautier
Source: Kashmir herald
 
Do you know the FACTS about Kashmir?
Over 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits, constituting 99% of the total population of Hindus living in the Kashmir Valley, have been forcibly pushed out of the Valley by terrorists. Since 1989, they have been forced to live the life of exiles in their own country. Terrorism has [...]

truth about POK &Kashmir

Background
All five regions — the Kashmir Valley, Jammu, Ladakh, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit and Baltistan are perceived to be disputed and part of the Jammu and Kashmir state, as they were at the time of partition after the Indo-pak war 1947,  Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto promulgated the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Act of 1974 to virtually [...]

HAJ V/S AMARNATH FACILITIES

The unfortunate events in Jammu & Kashmir regarding the transfer of land by the government to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board call for each one’s urgent attention and involvement.
What began as a simple effort to facilitate Amarnath pilgrims has suddenly developed communal and political overtones. This is appalling when compared to the facilities offered to the [...]

brief history of kashmir

Kashmir, if literally translated, means land desiccated from water: “ka” (the water) and shimeera (to desiccate). Tradition says that Kashmir was originally a lake that was drained by the great saint of ancient India Kashyap. It was included in the empire of Ashoka Maurya who is credited with the foundation of the city of Srinagar [...]