Kashmiri Pandit

Amid the heart-rendering wailings of the family members, the mortal remains of Puran Kishan Bhat reached his residence in Shopian late on Saturday night.

Kashmiri pandit shot dead, brother injured in terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district

SRINAGAR: A prominent Kashmiri Pandit businessman is taking a bold step as he is set to unveil Kashmir’s first-ever multiplex in the Sonwar area of Srinagar. The move comes more than three decades after the terrorists shut down all cinema halls in the valley. And the Dhar family, which owned the now defunct Broadway Cinema […]

  We need to dig deep into the basics of the Gordian knot – the Kashmiri Pandits problem – if we are thinking of establishing a policy outline to undo the logjam. It is a complicated phenomenon. Therefore, I shall welcome constructive criticism. Kashmiri Pandits (KPs), who decided not to leave the valley in the […]

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Emotions ran high as slogans of “Rahul Bhat amar rahe” (Long Live to Rahul Bhat) and “Pakistan Murdabad” (Death to Pakistan) reverberated as the last rites of slain Kashmiri Pandit Rahul Bhat were performed in Jammu on Friday. Bhat was killed by terrorists inside the tehsil office in Chadoora, Budgam in central Kashmir on […]

SHEIKHPORA (BUDGAM): “Har Ghar Rahul Nikli Ga” (There will be a Rahul from every home). For ages, a large part of Kashmir valley was abuzz with slogans against India and the Indian army. On Thursday, Kashmir was once again abuzz with the slogan. But it is a slogan of a different kind as hundreds of […]

The Kashmir Files is not a film, but a traumatic experience of the most brutal episode of Indian history that every Hindu should go through. For the first time, watching a film one realizes that sometimes the truth itself is exaggeration and it doesn’t need any special effects, props, or artistic expression to become more truthful. […]

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 […]