Jammu and Kashmir

People from all communities are looking to leave Afghanistan at the first chance they get as the Taliban gains power. But Pandit Rajesh Kumar, the priest of a Hindu temple in Kabul, says he would not flee. Kumar is perhaps the last Hindu priest living in the Afghan capital, some reports suggest. Why does he [...]

Today the world faces existential threat from two sides: global conflict and ecological collapse. We are heading into double extinctions, of culture and nature. These twin interlocking violations are centuries long processes with a common history of settler-colonialism, neo-colonialism and industrial capitalism[i]. Settler colonialism is, as Patrick Wolfe (2006) stated, a “logic of elimination”. It [...]

Abrahamic Supremacists Terrorists have shot dead Kashmiri Hindu Sarpanch Ajay Pandita Bharti din of Omkar Nath Pandita in Anantnag of South Kashmir. The 40 year old was Sarpanch of Lukbawan, Larkipora. [...]

Kashmiri Hindus, the indigenous people of Kashmir have been one of the biggest victims of ethnic cleansing over last 700 years. Last exodus of 1990 being the 7th one in history eventually wiped us out of our own homeland. [...]

Amarnath Yatra : Another batch of pilgrims leave from Jammu; Pilgrims not scared Terrorists on Monday night killed seven Amarnath pilgrims from Gujarat as they struck at a bus in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, in the worst attack on the annual pilgrimage since the year 2000. [...]

Suddenly, everyone wants us, Kashmiri Pandits (KPs), to return to the Valley. Everyone, including Yasin the murderer and Geelani the Fuehrer. And, not just return, but return with “honour” and “dignity”. Why? Because “Kashmir also belongs to the KPs” and, believe it or not, “without KPs Kashmir is not complete”. Kashmir has also been in [...]

LONDON: Kashmiri Hindus in the UK have held an event in the British Parliament to mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of the ‘Instrument of Accession’ of Jammu and Kashmir to India by Maharaja Hari Singh. Jointly organised by the Kashmiri Pandits Cultural Society and Voice of Dogras, the event earlier this week was [...]

Jammu, February 18, Bajrang Dal J&K and Vishaw Hindu Parishad have serious concerns over the running of Non vegetarian hotels and wine shops in Katra. In a statement issued to press said that Bajrang Dal asks Distt administration of Jammu to ensure that no meat shops are operated near vicinity of temples in Jammu city. [...]

  The Ganju family are among 500,000 Kashmiri Hindus who were forced to flee their native land because of terrorist acts committed against them. “We Hindus were threatened,” said Chandramukhi Ganju, who left Kashmir with her family in 1989. “We had to run from that place.” Kashmir, whose population is mostly Muslim, has been bitterly [...]

The annual Amarnath Yatra is facing a terror threat and the government is making all efforts to ensure security of the pilgrims, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Wednesday. “There is terror threat to Amarnath Yatra,” Shinde told reporters when asked about reports which suggested threat to the pilgrimage to the cave shrine in Jammu [...]