Mirwaiz Moulvi Farooq
Mirwaiz Moulvi Mohammad Farooq Shah was the leader of Awami Action Committee, a political party of Kashmir with a green flag, who fell to the bullets of terrorists on this…
Parvez Ghulam Rasool Zargar
He is an Indian cricketer born on February 13,1989 who plays all-rounder for Jammu and Kashmir. He is aright-handed batsman and off break bowler. Rasool is the captain of Jammu…
Mirwaiz Muhammad Omar Farooq
Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq (born 23 March 1973) is the Mirwaiz of Kashmir. He is the chairman of the Awami Action Committee, one of the two key factions of the…
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
( B Dec. 5, 1905, Soura, near Srinagar, Kashmir, India d. Sept. 8, 1982, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir ) By name LION OF KASHMIR, a prominent figure in India’s struggle…
Gulam Ahmad Mehjoor
The revolutionary poet Mehjoor, . Ghulam Ahmad Mehjoor popularly known as Shair-e-Kashmir (the poet of Kashmir) was born at Mitrigam, Pulwama on Ist August, 1887. He is considered herald of…
Shaheed Maqbool Bhat
Maqbool Butt was born on 18th February 1938 to a peasant family in Trahagam village Tehsil Handwara, district Kupwara. His father was called Ghulam Qadar Butt. All we know about…
Lalla Arifa
Lalla Arifa is seen as a blend of Hindu-Muslim amalgamation. The Hindus regard her the reincarnate whereas the Muslims, a perfect mystic saint. The Hindus say that her name was…
Habba Khatoon
Habba Khatoon was a 16th century Kashmiri mystic-poet and ascetic, who is also known as “Nightingale of Kashmir’. She was born in the small village Chandrahar just outside Samboora in…
Khwaja Abdul Karim Kashmiri
‘Kashmiris have always been at their intellectual Zenith’, writes the famous historian, G.M.D. Sufi, ‘and among those great Kashmiris who achieved international recognition, Khwaja Abdul Karim was the one who…
Gani Kashmiri
Due to his superb Persian poetry, Gani Kashmiri became famous in Iran also. His philosophical Persian poetry prompted Saib, a famous Persian poet, to travel all the way from Iran…