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When in 1955 there was a nation wide call for a mass movement for Goa’s liberation, Jammu’s Praja Parishad sent 20 Satyagrahis to Goa under the leadership of Thakur Ranjit Singh and Tilak Raj Sharma. Before setting off to Goa the…

Dogras society is steered by the ideas of righteousness. Any wrong doing, injustice and unfairness is an act of sin that requires redemption. There is deification for the victim and atonement for the perpetrator and his or her clan. The…

19th January each year brings into sharp focus the painful exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. It is only in the last decade or so that there has been a rising awareness about the horrifying persecution of minorities in the…

Worship of the female energy in the hills is as old as our Sanatan civilization. The Adi Shakti is worshipped in her different manifestations in both Jammu Region and Himachal Pradesh. Himachal is known as Dev Bhumi and is home to five…

Navratra a Hindu festival where AdiShakti is celebrated and worshipped comes four times a year according to the lunar calendar. Vasanta Navaratri or Chaitra Navratri that comes during spring season, that is, March-April, Ashadha Navaratri,…

Lying in the shadow of the Ramnagar Fort, is the Samadhi of the Rani of Raja Suchet Singh, brother of the Founder of the State of Jammu Kashmir, Maharaja Gulab Singh. The Rani of Raja Suchet Singh performed Sati after he was murdered in…

September 23rd is the Punyatithi/birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh, the last ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, whose royal title was Shriman "Indar Mahindar Rajrajeshwar Maharajadhiraj Shri Jammu Kashmir Naresh Tatha Tibet Deshadhipati".…