From 'Kashmir Speaks' by Prithvi Nath Kaula and Kanahaya Dhar (1950), these things, a reminder, wars make for sad quotes and sadder lives. It makes spartans out of apostles and apostles out of spartans. Above is the only known photograph of Maqbool Sherwani. Or rather an illustration based on a…
It is rather strange that when most narratives talk about the 1947-48 war, Poonch, Uri, Jammu Baramulla, Srinagar, all are remembered but seldom is Ladakh mentioned. It is almost as if people have forgotten the scale of the war. Kashmir Lama MurderedRaiders killed the Lama of Ganskar Padam Monastery, one…
Continuing with theme of Kashmir in European style... From my personal collection, Kashmir on the cover of July 1948 issue of a London based magazine called The Wide World.
