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Culture

Kashmir’s culture has fascinated the world for centuries. This section offers detailed narratives about the arts, crafts, individuals and characters that keep Kashmir’s art front active and attractive.

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...
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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...