Crowded Festival
Even the landslides on Mughal Road prevented a lot of people from joining the Urs, Wangat remained too crowded during the 3-day festival, reports...
Jashn e Ramzan: The Story Behind The Camera
Within a few months after moving out of the classroom, a young reporter in Kashmir Life landed in a team that shot an infotainment...
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...
Islam’s Informal Kashmir Era
Kashmir’s transition to Islam was neither the outcome of a forced conversion nor an abrupt miracle by any saint. It was a gradual process...
Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...
‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand the...
With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s...
The Amarnath Flood
Reviving memories of the 1996 tragedy, the flash flood – the third since 2015, near the cave shrine of Amarnath killed 15 pilgrims and...
Divine Drive
The Greater Eid, the Eid al Azha that falls after the Haj pilgrimage is a major Muslim festival. However, the two-and-a-half-day festival that witnesses...
Prophet’s Last Sermon
The prophet of Islam, Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) delivered his last speech on Friday the Zul Haj 9, 10 After Hijrah (March 6, 632) in...
Inside Kashmir’s Seminary Network
Kashmir’s formal education system owes its evolution to medieval Khanqah education and Maktab teaching. Kashmir still has an impressive seminary network and Dr Nisar...
Yatra 2022
After a hiatus of more than two seasons, the Amarnath Yatra has started. With the administration anticipating the highest number to visit the cave...
The Nupur Storm
Badmouthing has evolved into a new trend in politics but it always remained an internal sovereign issue till a ruling party spokesperson breached an...
The Eid Expenditure
Separated by around 70 days, the two Eid’s are ordained to be happy days in the Muslim lunar calendar. Happiness apart, the occasions are...
Course Correction
Kashmir’s seminary network is acknowledging the concerns but it would require strong societal backing to encourage the Dar-ul-Ulooms’ to start producing skilled people so...
Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri (1875-1933)
One of the greatest Muhadith’s from Kashmir, Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri was a poet and a great Islamic scholar, writes MJ Aslam
Mawlana Shah Mohammad...