‘Our Mother Tongue Is Far More Than A Means Of Communication’
A Malaysia based Kashmiri student, Asiya Hassan, who is busy building Kashmiri Dictionary on the web tells Khalid Bashir Gura
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): How can...
‘We Draw Our Identity From Our Mother Tongue’
Playwright Muhammad Amin Bhat told Khalid Bashir Gura after being elected as president of Adbi Markaz Kamraz.
Kashmir Life (KL): What drove you to...
Kashmir Wazwan
A Bollywood producer, currently in Srinagar, triggered a controversy by claiming that he has introduced veg-Wazwaan. He was trolled for naming a typical thali,...
An Artist’s Rise
Secretly painting for years, Saba Gul met an artist who broke the news of her hobby to her parents only after her creativity had been...
Rising Voices
Waqar Khan and Ishfaq Kawa’s songs on Youtube have fetched them millions of views. Their emergence in Kashmir’s cultural space was partly the outcome...
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...
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...
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...
The Urdu Umpire
More than 130 years of being the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Urdu’s fate hangs in balance as the downgraded state inches towards...
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...
Plebiscite And Poetry
Khaal Baub has been quite a phenomenon of the Plebiscite Front in South Kashmir’s Bijbehara belt. Days after Sheikh returned to power, Khaliq turned...
Illustrating Ghazal
Last fall, a young girl retrieved the typical Kashmiri slangs into a fascinating wall calendar. When Salma Masood met Instagram’s Alif, it turned out...
Writing For Kids
Once recognized, writers usually avoid writing about the children. This is the key factor for limitations in the Kashmiri literature for children. Aaqib Hyder...
Hoekh Suen Is Back
As better earning population is consuming fresh vegetables around the year pushing the traditional dried vegetables to history, a hospitality veteran has successfully created...
Hamee Ast’o, Saket (Delhi)
An engineer’s daughter set up a cafe in Delhi by creating a little Kashmir in a hall where Tumbakhnari and Tabakhnaut co-exist, reports Mir...
