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Facets of the Yajneopavit Sanskar

Devgun before one day is recommended by our great Rishi--Laughakshi, to infuse the Divine qualities in a would be initiated with the attributes of truthfulness, valor, strength, humanity

Author : Dr. Chaman Lal Raina More

YAGNOPAVIT ITS SIGNIFICANCE

Yagnopavit is a joint word made of two fragments - Yagna and Upvitam. Yagna means a sacrificial ceremony and Upvitam means sacred thread.

Author : Dr. Ashok Raina More

Price of a Lamb

How can you take this lamb, madam? Do you Battas have a heart? Do you possess any knowledge about rearing cattle? It is still a baby sucking at its mother's teats; I can not let it die under your care.

Author : Dr. K L Chowdhury More

CAN PANUN KASHMIR BE A POSITIVE ENABLER?

Time is ripe for us to realign our strategies, while taking into consideration the enormity of the demand for a separate homeland, and the favorable conditions that exist for the first time since our displacement started in the early 90’s.

Author : Ravi Munshi More

Images from Kashmir

Some beautiful images from Kashmir

Author : Sharu Wani More

Blood Cloaked Mother Kashmir

Under the bare tree of Chinar; haunted the lady sat; on her knees, Wept bitterly as if painfully parted; Mourning! Out she got from her cloak; some keys?

Author : Mehak Dhaar More

Kashmir & Kashmiri Pandit

A question remains, what KP did to be on list of endangered species? Species get extinct because of climatic changes, natural catastrophes or hit by a comet. What hit KP TO GET EXTINCT----?

Author : Dr. Makhan Lal Babu More

Anxiety about our kids

It is imperative as a parent not to allow your emotions feelings to do the work for your child, which he can do himself. He will have a hard time functioning of his own in this world.

Author : Bushan Bhat Hali More

Beauty of Translation

Article in Hindi on importance of translation in bringing languages closer.

Author : Shiben Krishen Raina More

Krishna Joo Razdan

A Kashmiri poem in praise of Krishna Joo Razdan

Author : Jaya Sibu More

Hunger

Bocha Hot- A poem in Kashmiri

Author : Ashok Bhatt More

Love

And you will be my beloved, Nothing but death shall part.

Author : Meenakshi Raina More

MY EXIT FROM: PARADISE

My grandmother, well clad in her traditional dress and attire, looked at the un-ending dangling roads, eyes teemed with saline tears; trickling down her face, like an Iceberg slowly melting down, in gloomy sunshine.

Author : Satish Raina More

Rehabilitation and Return of the displaced Hindus

The Hindus of Kashmir are aboriginal Kashmiris and have inalienable right to live and thrive in Kashmir.

Author : M.K. Dhar More

HOMELAND A MUST

Obviously creating such a geopolitical entity will require the reorganization of the whole state because the Ladakhis and Jammu-ites, being grievously hurt by the abusive arrogance of power exercised by the valley Sunnis

Author : Dr. Jagan N Kaul More