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Anuradha Bhasin of The Kashmir Times says her office’s closure was a ‘punishment for daring to question’ government policies'.

Successive rulers before and after 1947 have remained reluctant in encouraging English journalism in Jammu and Kashmir. Fighting odds, restrictions and outright denial of permissions, the English media always existed in the erstwhile state but never became the mainstay.

Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal In the early sixties, I was introduced to world of Indian paperback books. Doors to hitherto unexplored world of newly launched Gharelu Library Yojana ( home library plan) under which the first-ever paperbacks were brought to India as the pocket books. Hind Pocket Books printed a large number of paperbacks, first in Hindi and later in English as well. These books were sold at a comfortable price of one rupee a book.The publishers sent these books […]

Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal Just imagine that there are no colonies like Chhanni Himmat, Trikuta Nagar, Janipur or Pamposh Colony as we know these today. Sainik Colony and Greater Kailash are likewise nonexistant. So are Sidhra and Tawi Vihar as we know them today. Well, there was a time, Jammu was limited to the old city area that spread from Panjtirthi to Karan Nagar to Rehari, Talab Tillo, Gumat, Wazarat Road. City limits ended at the erstwhile Tawi bridge made […]

Official records have tried their utmost to suppress the details of a Muslim massacre.