[ad_1] Successive rulers before and after 1947 have remained reluctant in encouraging English journalism in Jammu and Kashmir. Fighting odds, restrictions and outright denial of permissions, the English media always existed in the erstwhile state but never became the mainstay. It only started getting visible, popular and vibrant by theContinue Reading
[ad_1] In Kashmir tehreek against the despotic Dogra rule, one of the major characters was businessman, Khawaja Sauddin Shawl, whose contribution is least known and hardly acknowledged. MJ Aslam offers the text and context to Shawl’s rise, contributions and eventual silence Saududin Shawl in a group photograph with his familyContinue Reading
[ad_1] With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th –18th Century) filled a huge void that in Kashmir’s architectural history. Design Director atContinue Reading
[ad_1] by Maleeha Sofi SRINAGAR: It was the return of the last two centuries on stage when a group of artists staged Chakdar Pather in Tagore Hall. Pather is basically a fold theatre that usually as satire and comedy as part of the process. The play opened with a bandContinue Reading
[ad_1] Once upon a time, the garden was an address for peak summer bathing, swimming and prayers. Now, Sher Bagh is a place for a brief halt for patients visiting the women’s hospital, reports Aasiya Nazir Once the town’s coolest place for prayers, fresh air, and rest, Anantnag’s Sher BaghContinue Reading
[ad_1] Two years after the British “took over” the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Oliver St John, the first British Resident on September 25, 1885, Andrew Wingate was appointed the land Settlement Officer on January 15, 1887. Of the state’s 28 tehsils he did land settlement inContinue Reading
[ad_1] Till the early twentieth century, the entire healthcare system was run by the Unani system of medicine with Hakeem’s at the apex of the unique pyramid. Kashmir excelled in making some of the best healthcare givers from the medieval Sultanate era, MJ Aslam writes Family Tree of Hakeems CenturiesContinue Reading