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...
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...
Moved to greener pastures
Cattle grazers in villages who were a common feature of life in rural Kashmir have given up the occupation with changing lifestyles. Mir Farhat...
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...
Rekindling Persian Past
Persian literature contains an immense treasure of Kashmiri culture and history almost totally obliterated from the present realm. But, as Majid Maqbool reports, there...
Tibetan Tastemakers
Kashmir being a melting pot of different cultures witnessed footprints of exiled Tibetan tribe in late fifties that ended up redefining the local taste...
Stone Artist
Carving objects out of stone is nothing new to Kashmir, but when the creativity of a stone carver moves beyond conventionalized norms, then it...
