The Umar Majid Story
On his fourteenth death anniversary, Er Shafi Ahmad remembers Kashmir’s short story writer, Umar Majid
With a script in hand, when he once entered the...
Kashmir’s Manto
A literary genius, Saadat Hasan Manto was born to a trader family that had migrated to Punjab during Sikh rule. Even though the greatest...
Timeless Tales
Going through Neerja Mattoo's curated book of Kashmir short stories, Khalid Bashir Gura sees elements of both timeliness and timelessness in the collection
Some of...
Making Melodies
Born visually impaired, Yasir picked the art of music and is now an established singer, reports Mariah Shah
In the last few years, Yasir Noorani...
Regal Gallery
After putting in more than three decades working in faraway offshore destinations, the Naqshabandi couple has launched the first privately owned art gallery. They...
Pheran Fusion
Finding the traditional lose cloak too archaic, scores of Kashmiri designers and investors brought in a turnaround in one of Kashmir’s key identity symbols,...
American Wazwaan
A Kashmir born woman settled in California has established an authentic Kashmir cuisine kitchen that home delivers mouth-watering dishes and a variety of fusion...
Caught In The Lingo
As Jammu and Kashmir got a basket full of languages, some of the employers are taking the Hindi route to recruit people. In one...
Palhalan’s Arinmaal
When a Pandit scholar preferred serving the Afghan governor, Jumma Khan’s court over his talented wife, Kashmir got the poetess, Arnimaal, Dr Abdul Majeed...
Reviving An Art
Caught by immobility dictated by situation and pandemic, a number of girls started reviving the forgotten art of calligraphy and some of them were...
Music In Mud House
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in...
Urdu In Dogra Rule
By the fall of the nineteenth century, Urdu had effectively replaced Persian as the language of the court and emerged as the new lingua...
Kashmir’s Other Grand Mosque
One of the oldest and Kashmir's other grand mosque (formerly known as Jamia Masjid) is the Aali Mosque situated at the far end of...
Faith, Fast and Feast
What is the role of food in the month of fasting? Haseeb A Drabu professes that its epicurean aspects are markers of Kashmiri identity...
Why Kashmir’s Tehzeeb Mahal Has Been A Jinx Throughout?
by Khalid Bashir Ahmad
In January 2013, when the then Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages invited the then Minister for...