Penman’s Peregrination
Life takes a full circle, quite literally. Syed Asma talks to noted Urdu and Kashmiri essayist Prof Mohammed Zaman Azurdah to piece together dots...
Surviving On Music
For the last thirty years when the gloom and gore enforced mourning’s as the new priority, the Kashmiri song chose one of the most...
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...
Culture Warriors
Farzana Nissar treks deep-south to report the lonely fight of a peripheral theatre cluster to preserve Bhand Pather
The road to Mohripora, barely 4 kms...
Kashmir Cultural Centre
Kashmir’s idea of creating a cultural Centre is a sad tale of missed opportunities spread over almost half a century writes M Saleem Beg
Kashmir has...
Hay days
A few strings of straw woven to make slippers were common footwear, not so long ago. Waseem Ahad reports.
Whenever Mohammad Akbar Pala, 70,...
History In Shambles
Set up to preserve the cultural heritage under Dogra regime, Srinagar’s Sri Pratap Singh Museum is nowadays lying in shambles. Not only are the...
Kashmir’s ‘Cabbage Walk’ Artist: ‘The laughter of my people is what I seek’
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The streets of Srinagar present a strange sight these days — a man ‘walking his cabbage’. You can see him everywhere with...
Healing Strokes
A young artist from Sopore, who has seen death from a close range, took refuge in colours to vent his feelings on canvas. Farzana...
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...
Apple of Kashmir’s eye
How would you like a sweet, aromatic apple with long shelf-life. Kashmir had it but lost it because of lack of access to Middle...
Ali’s K-concerns
by Mir Liyaqat Nazir
Brought up in the trilingual and tri-cultural environment, the late celebrated poet of the valley, Agha Shahid Ali remains Kashmiri to...
With an eye on conflict
Despair, loss and outrage find expression in an online exhibition showcasing works by Kashmiri artists. Gargi Gupta takes a look at the To Art...
Rehman Rahi (1925-2023)
In the demise of Rehman Rahi, Kashmir lost a doyen whose contributions to the Kashmiri language and literature are next to none, reports Yawar...
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...
