Jammu, Dec. 5 -- In the long and turbulent history of Kashmir, few figures stand as tall, as influential, and as complex as Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah - the man lovingly remembered as Sher-e-Kashmir, the Lion of Kashmir. Born in 1905 in Soura, Srinagar, he rose from humble beginnings to become the most defining political force of 20th-century Jammu & Kashmir.

A Voice that Challenged the Mountains

From the earliest days of his youth, Sheikh Abdullah refused to accept the suffocating autocracy under the Dogra monarchy. His education at Aligarh shaped him, but it was the pain of his people that transformed him. He returned to Kashmir not as a scholar seeking comfort, but as a reformer determined to challenge injustice - an incorrigible Kashm...