Investigating Kashmir’s Phrow
Once a year, devotees of Sheikh Zaiuddin in Ashmuqam assemble and lit Mashaal’s and the festival has emerged as a tourist attraction. Scholar and...
Refurbished Meeras Mahal
Asmat Jan offers a concise and informative overview of the Meeras Mahal Museum in Sopore, Kashmir’s oldest apple town.
The Meeras Mahal (The House of...
Mahmud Gami: An Introduction
University of Kashmir professor, Mufti Mudasir is discovering great Kashmiri poets for the English readership. After translating Gani Kashmiri, and Mehmud Gami, he was...
Kashmir’s Winter Cuisine
As winter sets in, Kashmir witnesses a complete transformation in its attire and food. Hurmat Altaf writes about the winter delicacies and culinary wonders...
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...
