Kashmir

Most of you have not heard of him ! Indian History is distorted to the level that we don’t know the ruler who had a empire bigger than Mauryas The name, Lalitaditya or Muktapida may be totally unfamiliar to a vast majority of Indians, this despite the fact that Lalitaditya might as well have be

I watched The Kashmir Files last weekend. I honestly can't say I've ever watched a movie that was so emotionally grueling. Sadness, guilt, and anger all went through my mind. I could not move after the movie finished, and the general eerie silence of the other audience was notable. Despite knowing a

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Abstract: Is Bhārata a discourse on space that does not allow a visual representation of that space? Is it the case that on the basis of such a discourse, it is not possible to draw a map in the modern sense of the word? Is it methodologically inappropriate to identify Bhāratavarṣa with a concrete t

Let’s go back to the era of Sultan Sikandar known to the history as Butshikan, meaning, iconoclast. He was a religious fanatic, the like of whom would put any bigot to shame. In 1394 Sultan Sikandar came to the throne and soon earned the nick name of Butshikan or Iconoclast, from the intense ze

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As on the date of this post, this playlist features seven recent Sanskrit songs (listed below) with lines from four texts: the itihasā Mahābhārata, the Upavedā Nāṭyaśāstra, the Mahākāvya Naiṣadhīyacarita, and the (to use historian Shonaleeka Kaul's characterisation found in The Making of Early Kash

From the middle of 1970's growth of Islamic fundamentalism began in Kashmir. No single reason can be given for this. Several factors, such as the geo-political situation of the valley, Sheikh Abdullah's personal political ambition, the problematic accession to India with its aftermath and the inabil

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One might have heard Kashmir being described, some might say claimed, as an abode of Indian knowledge. The lines of this Sanskrit song, from the 12th-century mahākāvya śrīharṣa's naiṣadhīyacarita, by describing Kashmiri-s as conversant with caturdaśavidyā (translated by some as fourteen abodes of

Namaste, Landscape in the Nāṭyaśāstra and clues to its spatial origin: A study in 2019 is the title of a paper which was presented at a National Seminar in Himachal Pradesh earlier this year. Here is eminent historian of Indian-Kashmiri origin (पद्मश्री awardee) Dr. Subhash Kak's appraisal: ht

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In old times, the aborigines of this place were the tribals named Nagas, Pishachas and Yakshas, who used to go in summer towards Tibet and return to Kashmir in winter. Because of the fear of these tribals, the Brahmins used to depart from the valley before the tribals returned. The Brahmins begin t

Notebook from Kashmir,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnj9M_lUhwI "A filmmaker discovers a notebook in an abandoned Kashmiri Pandit house, in the village of Nadimarg. And decides to return it to its owner. So begins the journey into a deeply intimate history of love, loss and memory." Courtesy:

Link to the talk: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=490494958627904 Link to the book on OUP site: https://india.oup.com/product/the-making-of-early-kashmir-9780199482924 Link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.in/Making-Early-Kashmir-Landscape-Rajatarangini-ebook/dp/B07BY3XBR6/ref=cm_cr_arp

Video (with narration in Hindi): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7q1j8aDlKE&t=01s DP-sized summary of some of Ācārya Abhinavagupta's known works (in Devanagari and IAST):

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According to the legend- Kashmir valley was once a vast lake, Satisar in which Goddess Parvati sailed in a pleasure boat. In her honour the lake was known as Satisar, the tarn of a chaste woman. But there dwelt in the lake a cruel demon Jaldeo who destroyed all life in the lake and rendered the coun

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