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Saeed Naqvi (Saeed Naqvi is a senior commentator on political and diplomatic issues. The views expressed are personal. He can be reached on saeednaqvi@hotmail.com) I had no business to forget Badshah Khan's 130th birthday this February, having been his press secretary when he came on a year's "healing mission" as guest of both the political camps led by Indira Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan. The international system is trying to compose itself today. It was dividing itself sharply during the Pashtun leader's visit. Just as India became salient to regional play then, it will by force of circum...

In Photos: Kashmir In the Last Couple of Weeks In Photos: Kashmir In the Last Couple of Weeks 'Tchay-e-gard shikar' (shadow fishing) Kashmiri fishermen covered in torn blankets, hold harpoons as they wait to catch the fish in the Anchar lake in Srinagar. The fishermen camouflage their presence and lure the fish into a trap with the help of reeds and waves by beating the water.     A kashmiri artisan Ghulam Nabir Dar, 67 carves wood at his workshop in downtown Srinagar. Ghulam Nabi Dar is a master craftsman in the art of walnut wood carving.     Colleges in Kashmir reopen after a year of...

Share Via Email LA-based Mulberry Films has acquired the rights to multiple bestselling books for film and television adaption. Mulberry’s project Nanda Devi has recently been in the headlines because of the tragic glacier burst in Uttarakhand. In 1965, the United States and India collaborated in an attempt to install a listening device at 25,000 feet on the mountain Nanda Devi to monitor the nearby Chinese nuclear test site. The listening device was powered by highly radioactive plutonium, and was lost during the expedition. It has been speculated that it may be the cause of the recent gl...

Uttarakhand tragedy on reels Updated Feb 24, 2021, 12:03 am IST Indian-American Hollywood producer Rashaana Shah’s Mulberry Films will put the stories of real-life heroes on the silver screen  Rashaana Shah Natural and man-made disasters have always been an attractive subject for filmmakers. For almost half a century, films based on earthquakes, volcanos, cyclones, tornadoes and pandemics, apart from a host of other disasters, have kept audiences on the edge of their seats. Bollywood reflected this global fascination for disaster movies, and made Kedarnath, Bhopal: A prayer for rain an...

Did nuclear spy devices in the Himalayas trigger India floods? BBC 22nd February, 2021 11:48:37 In a village in the Indian Himalayas, generations of residents have believed that nuclear devices lie buried under the snow and rocks in the towering mountains above. So when Raini got hit by a huge flood earlier in February, villagers panicked and rumours flew that the devices had "exploded" and triggered the deluge. In reality, scientists believe, a piece of broken glacier was responsible for the flooding in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, in which more than 50 people have died. But tell tha...