Cooking a Success Story
A home-maker’s passion to serve her family delicious delicacies helped her start cooking classes as a professional. A year later, Irfana Ali is teaching...
Walls Do Speak
A group of artists joined hands to restore abandoned structures in tourist hot-spots across Kashmir. But that is not all they intend to do....
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...
Ghulam Ali Majboor (1952 – 2009)
by Zubair A Dar
On Friday, May 15, when Ghulam Ali Majboor breathed his last, it was not the death of an artist alone, it...
Heritage Demolished?
The twin-road project to expand the narrow arterial network of roads in old city has altered the demography of the area known for its...
Poetic Musings
He is a banker who thinks in verses rather than ones and zeroes. Shakir Mir talks to poet Mohammad Zahid to piece together his...
Naat Gou Sardar
A school teacher grew with Muslim friends and was influenced by the eulogies sung in the praise of prophet of Islam, so he started...
Palhalan’s Arinmaal
When a Pandit scholar preferred serving the Afghan governor, Jumma Khan’s court over his talented wife, Kashmir got the poetess, Arnimaal, Dr Abdul Majeed...
Lost in modernity
The traditional architecture is no more in fashion in Kashmir, which many believe was more suited to valley’s climatic conditions. Ibrahim Wani reports.
Zahoor Ahmad...
Saving Heritage
When contractors and mafia patronized by local administration started vandalizing saffron Karewas a local shopkeeper decided to challenge them. Saima Bhat meets Ghulam Nabi...
Mohammad Ismail Mir
Kashmir lost its celebrated storyteller, the daastango Mohammad Ismail Mir, recently. The deceased was instrumental in keeping the flame of ‘daastangoi’ alive in the state...
Tral’s Gufkrals’
On the foothills of Tral is a maze of caves that is an established archaeological site offering details about the early settlements of mankind...
Kashmir’s Manto
A literary genius, Saadat Hasan Manto was born to a trader family that had migrated to Punjab during Sikh rule. Even though the greatest...
Pushed Out
Computers are pushing out the good old typewriter, however, nobody knows the fate of thousands of typewriters which were part of the government offices...
Kashmir lost its ‘Master of Ghazal’
by Bilal Handoo
In the 1950s, a freshly appointed Urdu lecturer of Srinagar’s Sri Pratap College observed an intriguing episode recurring in his class. One...
