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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.

Fun Face of Kashmir

What can be more rewarding for an actor than people remembering him for a role he played. Sumayyah Qureshi talks to the most known...

Museum On The Border

by Muneer A Raqeeb This is what they have named museum at Hunderman, in the barren mountains on the Line of Actual Control (LoAC). This...

Life in Colours

A fourth generation Rangar is struggling to save the traditional art of dyeing the yarn from onslaught of modernity and indifference. Jibran Nazir meets...

Alien Mother

Sidelined for long, Kashmiri is now in schools as a compulsory subject, but as Aliya Bashir reports, the loopholes in its introduction may turn...

Preserving the Past

At an age when people retire, Atiqa Bano set up a museum to preserve and display rare artefacts and manuscripts of Kashmir. Majid Maqbool...

The Beach Pheran Party

The GenNext of non-resident Kashirmis is on a rediscovery route with focus on culture. Last month, a few young women from diverse professions took time...

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...

The Family Gold

A Jammu jewellers’ family owns some of the rarest pieces of Islamic calligraphy and it includes two specimens of the Quran which require a...
The historical Burzhoam. Image: Nitasha KaulThe historical Burzhoam. Image: Nitasha Kaul

Battling Burzhoam

Key to the early settlement of mankind in the Neolithic era, Burzhoam is the world’s most recognized site that holds answers to a lot...

Zainapora, Budshah’s southern shelter

Almost following a central Asian saint, Zainulabideen reached a dusky south Kashmir village to create his palace and a garrison. The village remembers everything...

Skinned

Fur and furriers were a part of Kashmir’s economy, providing employment to thousands of people. A blanket ban on fur trade made it extinct...

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...

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...

Food on the Go

Not everybody can afford glitzy restaurants and fast food joints that now dot Srinagar city. There are thousands who still throng city’s famous Food...

Expressive Strokes

What started from his father’s Paper Machie workshop where he used to play with colours as a kid turned into a career for Arshad...