Kashmir’s ‘Cabbage Walk’ Artist: ‘The laughter of my people is what I seek’
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SRINAGAR
The streets of Srinagar present a strange sight these days — a man ‘walking his cabbage’. You can see him everywhere with...
Romancing The Hammam
The sudden surge for the Hammam’s in homes has led to some innovations in the way Kashmir tries to fight winter. Saima Bhat reports...
A Dish, A Spectacle
Over the centuries, Kashmir has perfected the art of Hareesa-making and it is a key dish for the affluent in Srinagar. Mohammad Raafi meets...
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...
Painting Mughals
The art of depicting the lifestyle of erstwhile Mughals rulers on papier-mâché is fading into history. Mohammad Raafi traces one of the last surviving...
Poetic Dreams
After the Kashmir situation orphaned her, the young girl from North Kashmir decided to become narrator to revive the reading habits in youth with...
Performance Art
For him art is an expression that needs no fixtures of disciplines within art. Ehtisham Azhar tells Durdana Bhat how practicing art under the...
Love of Language
He spent his life’s saving for the promotion of Kashmiri literature by distributing books free of cost. Shakir Mir sketches Gumgeen’sliterary journey and his...
The Walnut Fudge
By Syed Asma
Have your ever tasted a Walnut Fudge! If not, then you are surely missing one of the most talked about exclusivity of...
Hamlet’s Kashmir Version ‘Uff ti Karakh Na!’ Staged at SP College
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SRINAGAR
A ticketed crowd gathered at the Historic SP College last weekend to witness ‘Uff ti Karakh N!’, a Kashmiri adaptation of Shakespeare’s...
Night Lights
It was happening in the heart of Srinagar yet unlike a typical Srinagar evening. Shakir Mir wraps up the month long festivity that Kashmir...
A Weary Traveller
From once lively literary meetings where he rubbed shoulders with the who-is-who of his times to a small dark room in Srinagar, 90-year-old Ghulam...
A Colourful Urn
Inspired by the likes of Van Gogh and Rembrandt, a Kashmiri landscape artist’s work reflects the changing mood of a place and its people....
An Incomplete CANVAS
It was her husband’s wish to see her become a celebrated artist. But before Naseema could finish her first major work, he died leaving...
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...
