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Culture

Kashmir’s culture has fascinated the world for centuries. This section offers detailed narratives about the arts, crafts, individuals and characters that keep Kashmir’s art front active and attractive.

Photo: Bilal Bahadur

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...

Band Paether

Neither is music new to the land of Habba Khatoon nor the debate over its status in Muslim societies. Then why all of a...

A Dying Art

Not long back, kitchens in households across Kashmir were filled with utensils made up of clay. With the advent of modernity, new trends emerged....

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...
Kargil Festival 2012 -- Photo: Junaid Nabi Bazaz

Of Harmony in Conflicting Ethnicities

The rulers who conquered Kargil have left their culture and tradition behind in numerous ethnic groups who live in harmony and tranquillity in the...

Tanha Ansari: A forgotten legend

Kashmir has produced a number of legendary poets like Mehjoor and Dina Nath Nadim whose poems continue to rhyme in the hearts of many...

Divided In Exile

Though being considered as one of the brilliant contemporary poets, Ghulam Mohammad Bhat aka Mushtaq Kashmiri is little known in Kashmir. As neither he nor his books are available here. Saima Bhat reports.

For Shahid: a promise

by Prof Suvir Kaul I do not know why Shahid—Bhaiya, as we knew him—chose to address to me “A Pastoral,” one of his poems of...

Lost In Translation

The imposition of multiple languages other than Kashmiri is leading to an evolving Kashmiri society. But what does it mean for the new generation?...
An invitation card in Persian extended to an invitee by the Maharaja’s durbar. Source-social media

Rekindling Persian Past

Persian literature contains an immense treasure of Kashmiri culture and history almost totally obliterated from the present realm. But, as Majid Maqbool reports, there...

Languages Of Faith

Languages can be windows into cultures as well as tools of influencing belief and behaviour. Shazia Yousuf takes a look at who is attracted...

Language And Times

Kashmiri language has evolved in recent times by accepting words and phrases that had nothing to do with the native spoken Kashmiri. It has...

Inheriting Language of Turbulence

August 2011 marks the beginning of 24th year of the militancy in Kashmir, a phenomenon that did not only devour a generation in its...

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...

The Un-Silent Valley

An event in London held to celebrate the literature emerging from Kashmir besides developing a multi-perspective understanding of Kashmir, talked about giving people space...