NEW DELHI – The Kashmiri Pandit community and supporters gathered at Jantar Mantar this evening to commemorate the annual Balidan Divas, a day dedicated to honouring the martyrs of the Kashmiri Pandit community and the security forces who have sacrificed their lives. The event, organized by Kashmiri Samiti Delhi, Youth 4 Panun Kashmir, Panun Kashmir, […]
The release of two US hostages from Gaza last Friday marked the first step in a nascent process of negotiations. Some Israelis have been released since. These releases were in exchange for humanitarian aid going into Gaza—something the Israeli government had initially ruled out completely. It indicates that we are on the road to gradually […]
NEW DELHI: Stoking a controversy involving ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie, the Kerala unit of the Congress on Sunday blamed the BJP for the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, and accused the saffron party of doing nothing to take Pandits back to the Valley. Sharing some misleading “facts about Kashmiri Pandits issue” in a series of […]
It is not easy to write about movies or books which bare one’s bottled-up horrors and agony. But then, that is the strength of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’. It has made me, a displaced Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu), to own it, to call it my story. And that is no small feat. For the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the installation of a giant statue of Adi Sankara at Kedarnath on November 5, 2021. On the reconstructed Samadhi of the great seer Prime Minister said, “Adi Shankaracharya’s samadhi is a supernatural view of India’s spiritual prosperity and breadth.” “The meaning of Shankar in Sanskrit is – ‘Sham Karoti Saha Shankarah’, […]