In Transition Crisis
As the world is changing and English is emerging as the global language of communication, knowledge, skill and livelihood, Kashmiri is facing a deficit...
The Cashmere Content
At a time when efforts are underway to request the search giant Google to add Kashmiri to its translation services, Khalid Bashir Gura met...
Ghulam Nabi Khayal (March 4, 1939- October 15, 2023)
In the demise of poet and scribe, Ghulam Nabi Khayal, Kashmir lost a witness to the history of a crucial era. His 32 books...
The Nilgrar Narrative
The last village on the foothills of Zoji La does not offer a breath-taking view of the Singh Valley alone. It is a model village...
New Poet, New Language
An unlettered woman in north Kashmir has been a poet for more than 30 years. What distinguishes her from the tribe is that she...
Second Lives
A number of people live two lives. They do something for a living and a completely different thing for passion. Muskan Fatima meets a...
Baand Paether: Kashmir’s Endangered Folk Art
Already restricted to a few villages in Kashmir, the traditional folk art practitioners insist that while paid performances have disappeared, they are lacking access...
Maeshi Kreaj: Kashmir’s Butter Bread
Buffalo herdsmen convert milk into sundried cheese that is stored, cooked and sold as a speciality, explains MJ Aslam
Unlike Kashmir plains, the hills of...
Kashmir’s Disappearing Mesaharati
The digitized twenty-first century has bestowed almost everything upon the cell phone to the extent that it has replaced more than 50 things. While...
Kashmir’s Bone Setters
Till orthopaedics graduated as a key biological science, Kashmir, like many other societies, would get its bone corrections from the bone setters. Nidah Mehraj...
Gurus: The Kashmir Drink
A by-product in traditional butter making, buttermilk has been the most consumed drink in Kashmir for centuries. With machines taking over the skimming and...
Kashmir’s Sweetmeats, Candies
Kashmir is famous for its multicourse mutton cuisine, the Wazwaan. That, however, never means that there are no candies and sweetmeats endemic to Kashmir,...
Rehman Rahi (1925-2023)
In the demise of Rehman Rahi, Kashmir lost a doyen whose contributions to the Kashmiri language and literature are next to none, reports Yawar...
Rahman Rahi: Death of the Doyen
Celebrating our own cultural personalities is a way of reaffirming our identity, writes Haseeb A Drabu, in a tribute to Rahi sahab
Rahman Rahi’s...
Wandeh: The Kashmir Winter
In Kashmir, winter is just not a season or a celebration alone. It is a language too. MJ Aslam offers a text and context...
