Majid JahangirZehanpora (Baramulla), Jan. 10 -- The mounds of Zehanpora along the historic erstwhile Srinagar-Jhelum Valley road, have fallen silent for winter, but the story they unearthed has only grown louder.
The excavations at the Baramulla site claimed by archaeologists as a 2,000-year-old Buddhist complex from the Kushan era - have thrust Kashmir back into the heart of ancient Buddhist history. Spotlighted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his December Mann Ki Baat, the discovery, first hinted at in a rare French archival photograph of three stupas, is set to resume in April, promising to reveal more of the Valley's forgotten Buddhist past.
The Buddhist site discovered last year in Zehanpora village of north Kashmir has been close...