Music In Mud House
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in...
Urdu In Dogra Rule
By the fall of the nineteenth century, Urdu had effectively replaced Persian as the language of the court and emerged as the new lingua...
Kashmir’s Other Grand Mosque
One of the oldest and Kashmir's other grand mosque (formerly known as Jamia Masjid) is the Aali Mosque situated at the far end of...
Faith, Fast and Feast
What is the role of food in the month of fasting? Haseeb A Drabu professes that its epicurean aspects are markers of Kashmiri identity...
Why Kashmir’s Tehzeeb Mahal Has Been A Jinx Throughout?
by Khalid Bashir Ahmad
In January 2013, when the then Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages invited the then Minister for...
‘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...
