The Cherry Tree

Sitting in his cozy office of Shiraz Travels at Lambert Lane in Srinagar, Nazir Bakshi , the scion of the Bakshi clan is a living legend in his own right. What he has done for the tourism industry in Kashmir is well known within the domain…

You left temples godless behind on their own, concerned. You took away deities asleep, draped in silk soaked with tears and left behind angels weep. Hushed I kept listening you leave in nights cursed, drop after drop, untold; through the…

The Kashmiris contributed voluminously to the Sanskrit literature in India.  Not only in the field of poetics where the  Kashmirian scholars have excelled all others, their contribution in the field of philosophical and historical…

A filmmaker from Kashmir, who started his career during the time when people preferred to stay aloof from the show business. The timing was not right, but the sheer determination not just only removed the hurdles, but paved the way forward.…

Away from din and delusion of the city When evening skids down my glum shoulders And darkness stalks Like a lost sobbing child Rambling down a blighted wild, Weeping clouds accumulate And sky of my memories turns overcast Ominous…

In about 8000 B.C. the Valley of Kashmir was a vast lake surrounded by the lofty mountains. The Nilamatapurana of Nila-nage is the earliest sources of information about the origin of Kashmir, its earliest inhabitants and its tirthas. It…

Mohmad Javid Wani is part of that generation that has experienced the winds of change in the Valley of Kashmir. From the days of many Chinars to days of many concrete structures, from the days of clean Jhelum to the days of polluted air.…

A Short Story by Faruq Masudi Perched restlessly atop a pink petal, a drop of dew longed for the rosebud to say, “Melt into my inner most recess. Immerse into my deepest fragrance, become one unto me and make me bloom into a blushing…

Character Building in Kashmir By C.E. Tyndale Biscoe Foreword by Sir Robert Baden Powell Published in 1920 by Church Missionary Society, London It was in the autumn of the year 1891 that His Excellency Lord Landsowne came to Kashmir,…

While his love for Kashmir has never dwindled, his passion to notch new levels in his career graph refused to slow down. His is a carrier graph that is heading North. Forty-four-year-old Sandeep Zutshi, Chief Executive Officer at Ascentaz…