Tales of Kashmir

For thirty-odd years, if a Kashmiri family had exhausted every other door, they went to Gojwara-born Dr. Ali Jan. He asked few questions, touched a wrist, watched a face, and named the illness before the patient had finished describing it. People call…

Dr. Qazi Nisar Ahmad and the brief, unrepeated unity he built across a fracturing valley On 19 June 1994, Dr. Qazi Nisar Ahmad was assassinated in Dialgam, on the outskirts of Islamabad town in South Kashmir's Anantnag district. He was forty-two. …

13 July 1931: The Day That Changed Kashmir’s History On the afternoon of 13 July 1931, outside the walls of the Central Jail in Srinagar, a gathering that had formed around the trial of a political prisoner became one of the most defining moments in t…