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Walnuts and Shiva Ratri

Walnuts as it is called Doon in Kashmiri language is an integral part of Walnuts the Vedic injunction in the Kashmiri Pandit religious ethos. Walnut in any Homa is essential ingredient of the Samagri.

Author : Dr. Chaman Lal Raina More

Global Teleconference with Rahul Pandita

Kashmir Hindu Foundation, Inc. in association with Shehjar.com organized an International Conference to discuss the book "Our Moon has Blood Clots". It was a treat to hear the young, erudite author Rahul Panditaput forth facts and his viewpoints on the exodus of 1989-90 and its post and preceding events.

Author : Deepak Ganju More

a n a n t n a g

He had fled his home at Anantnag at midnight on the 11th of January 1990 with his newly married young wife and father. He could not have done it without the help of his colleague and friend at the school where he was a teacher for over three years and was held in great esteem by everybody in the neighborhood where he lived.

Author : B.L.Dhar More

The Guru's Last wish

From Faith and Frenzy - short stories from Kashmir

Author : Dr. K L Chowdhury More

Can We Ever Shun Being Hypocritical About Secularism?

The nationalist, real secular people are having a tough time retrieving the true, exalted meaning of secularism from the gutter levels that the word has been sunk into.

Author : P. N. Ganjoo More

Maha Kumbh Mela: I was there!

As founder of the Green Kumbh Movement, my experience at the Maha Kumbh is both bitter-sweet and inspiring. Kumbh Mela is living proof that incredible faith in God, quite literally, is the force that binds and turns the Hindu world's calendar.

Author : Kusum Vyas More

Mahashivaratri the most popular festival of Kashmir

The worship of Lord Shiva and Devi Parvati is performed by the Pandits wherever they are throughout the World in traditional manner established by our forefathers. No other festival is celebrated in such a manner and scale by Kashmiri Pandits.

Author : Late S. N. Dhar More