About Shehjar

 

The idea of an e-magazine, with focus on multiple aspects of our rich cultural heritage, politics, philosophy, community news, views, people, community business promotion, networking, matrimonials,entertainment, new songs & videos and other such, originated in the middle of 2007. We are amazed at the pace the events have unfolded, converting those initial turbid perceptions into a reality.

  

The motivation for launching such an e-magazine, Shehjar, has been to promote KP issues of this decade and bring the diverse needs of our community in a format that is easy to read and navigate. Despite so many fine KP journals being published, the need was felt to bring a magazine that is different in flavor and caters to the needs of everyone, from a literary serious to a casual reader. However, it would not have been possible without enthusiastic support and words of encouragement from everyone we spoke to.

  

Conceived and designed to be an interactive online magazine to serve the large global Internet readership, Shehjar will appear at regular intervals. Its hosting website, kashmirgroup.com, will be ever active and responsive to readers, with features like discussion forum, news and readers’ feedback. We hope that you will find these features interesting and keep us busy with your participation. With a global membership database and subscription listof about 10,000 registered users/members in our group, the possibilities of immediate readership are limitless.

   

Though we intend to have speacial, theme based issues as well, we endeavor to put together an interesting mix of articles, poems and event sections in each issue. Every issue  attempts to have a fair representation in terms of variety of content and subjects. A web based magazine does not have limitations with regard to the publishing of high quality multimedia content, like graphics, audios and videos etc. as compared to the traditional subscription-based print magazines that inherently lack some of these features.

 

Our web and graphic design teams toiled hard and long to meet the needs. We are grateful for their response, especially we are indebted to Mr. Arun Koul for his expertise. Thanks to our contributors for their interest and efforts in promoting this worthy cause. Thanks are also due to friends and well wishers for their invaluable suggestions.

 

While featuring writings from established writers, we are also introducing several budding writers and artists deserving to be read and heard, consistent with our objective of encouraging the upcoming talent in our community.

 

We need your input and enthusiastic contribution to make this e-magazine vibrant. It belongs to all of us and you are our associates in this new venture, in our quest of exploration. With your support and active involvement, we look forward to a most interesting future for ‘Shehjar’.

BEAUTY WITH BRAINS - AN INSULT

The sad part is, not just men but women themselves believe that this combination is rare. more

A Turbulent Night In Kashmir

Every evening it was regular feature to join our father together to go bus station to receive new batch of our distressed, hapless relatives, poor souls more

A paradise lost

If we can ever regain more

Harisa- The classic Dish of Kashmir

This is called harisa, a saffron-flavoured dish. A gift from Iran to the people of Kashmir. more

Kashmiri Recipe Roganjosh

Kashmiri Recipe Lamb Roganjosh more

Kashmir - The untold story

The pigeons roaming in the homes of Kashmiri Pandits are a real testament to the government's failed policy, which abandoned the Hindus of Kashmir. more

Paintings by Ravi Dhar

Paintings depicting culture of Kashmir more

Ahrabal

The Charming Place With Breathtaking Waterfall more

Raktim Tandav

A collection of beautiful poems more

Revenge Time

Your mistakes have reached the brim of the tower, more

Payments to Shehjar - Google Checkout
Koshur Saal

News & Events

Gandhi frontline reporter and Neha Ganju book released

Gandhi front-line reporter and Neha Ganju book released at Sabarmati Ashram more

The resurgent Pandits of Kashmir

The struggle for justice and rights by minority Kashmiri Pandit community has been an ongoing battle for a long time. more

Sonch Sodur

Balkrishan Sanyasi's new book Sonch Sodur more