Dr. Shashishekhar Toshkhani

Dr. S.S. Toshkhani, the editor, is a renowned scholar of India and belongs to a great intellectual family of Kashmir. His father late Prof. S.K. Toshkhani was a legendary scholar of Kashmir's literature, language and culture. Dr. Toshkhani is a poet, linguist, writer and thinker. He has contributed substantially to Kashmiri heritage and carried out modern research in various fields of Kashmiri literature, history, religion, art and social science in general. He is a member of the research committee of Kashmiri Education, Culture and Science Society. He is conducting research on Bhakti tradition in Kashmiri Poetry as a Senior Fellow (on a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture) and on rituals and visual arts of Kashmir at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. He has been associated in many leading seminars conducted by Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society. Dr. Toshkhani, therefore, represents a great tradition of scholarship of Kashmir and Kashmiri Pandits.

Lal Ded: The great Kashmiri Saint-poetess Editor: Dr. S.S. Toshkhani. This book represents the proceedings of a National Seminar on "Remembering Lal Ded in Modern Times" conducted by Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society in New Delhi on 12 November, 2000. Lalleshwari or Lal Ded, according to late Prof. Jayalal Kaul, has been the greatest genius of Kashmir of all times. This book has many eminent writers of modern period who have recollected the genius of Lal Ded for the modern world. >>>		Kashmir: The Crisis in Perspective  Lies, half truths and systematic disinformation about the political situation and terrorist mayhem has become the order of the day. Press and political activists are hostages to the terrorist outfits. Freedom of opinion, dissent and beliefs have been stamped out by the terrorists. Their manner of working and propagating is right out from Fascist or Nazi tactics. Their cry for Azadi is a facade for secession, depriving men of conscience from liberty and basic freedoms guaranteed by the Indian constitution.  >>>
Festivals of Kashmiri Pandits Let us cast a glance at some of the religious festivals celebrated by the Kashmiri Hindus. An interesting fact about them needing investigation is that some of these are celebrated a day ahead of their celebration by Hindus in other parts of the country.  >>>		Kashmiri Language: Roots, Evolution and Affinity Kashmiri is a unique language in the Indian linguistic context. It is analytic like the modern Indian languages of Sanskritic stock and synthetic like the Old Indo-Aryan itself, possessing characteristics of both and at the same time having peculiarities of its own many of which are yet to be fully explored. >>>
An article on Krishen Joo Razdan in Hindi. >>>