May 2009, Issue#21

Robbers took away their valuables, their personals, even their homes, sent them packing and now they want to take away even their belonging to Kashmir and the belonging of Kashmir

Rajesh S Jala, a Delhi based documentary filmmaker has been making documentaries for more than a decade. His recent award winning 74-minute documentary “Children of the Pyre ...

It was matter of great pride to visit the archives of J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in Srinagar and Jammu. The Academy archive has the richest collection of Indian ...

Lalleshuri brings home to man that human life is a rare occasion to work for the awakening of soul and realization of the divine in one’s own being besides freedom from the cycle ...

A Kashmiri Pandit is inalienably tied to Kashmir and 'Kashmiriat'. Wherever he is, he always remembers his homeland.

Kashmir when only 11 Pandit Families survived

Poems by G.L. Kaul - In video (Kashmiri and Urdu Kavita)

Let us blend genes with genes - those magic skeins, the encrypted secrets of life - and pass our lineage on

Exclusive news in pictures are for the month of March, 2009 by Shehjars Photo Journalist.

The "P" factor - Power Politics and Post-Poll positions

Brutally frank and moving, Dardpur is a tour de force undertaken by Kshama Kaul. Many a people have attempted to portray the pain and suffering of the people who have been caught ...

The Abdullah scion has conveniently ignored the ethnic cleansing of the aboriginal Kashmiri Hindu Pandits in the valley in 1989-90 at the hands of their very own Kashmiri ...

In search for a roof over his head he used many stopovers over several years, till he finally landed in Purkhoo “Migrant’ Camp and earned his claim to a one-room ‘quarter’ in ...

I entered into the temple and saw my grand mother (from mother’s side) in the form of Mata Kali. To her left I saw an idol of Hanuman. Mata directed me to perform a havan there in

The early morning rush hour at the Mall Road was palpable as all kinds of people rushed to wherever they were going. Young children wanted to avoid getting late for school and ...

Mulaqat - A short story in Hindi

Mansukh Wani, Indian Scientist who discovered two of our best anticancer drugs.

Kashmir! the name is enough for me while in exile.

Kashmiri Poem - Sontuk Gash

Conclusion was written by the author in May 1999, soon after her 10th standard board exams, in Nepal, where she had gone to visit her cousins.They were on an outing to some faroff

Poem "Karamveer" from Ayodhyasigh Upadhyaya's "Hariaudh', recited by Vibhasa Raina

What is the purpose of life. Read this nice poem in Hindi

Writer and Director Ashoke Pandit worth watching TV serial

SKGS Ashram Organizes Gurukul Yagyopaveet

It was at that time of great concern and tragedy that I felt most deeply that while America is a diverse tapestry of people from many lands and cultures