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...
Scripted Controversy
Prior to Modi Sarkar’s controversial order involving imposing Hindi, a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits had met HRD minister Smriti Irani on June 26 seeking,...
A Cultural Psy-op
For critics, Bakshi’s extravagant Jashn-e-Kashmir festival was aimed to manage public anger after Sheikh was jailed. Raashid Maqbool revisits the era to understand how...
Making Mehjoor Immortal
Learning a lesson from the obscure poets of Kashmir, Peerzada Nadeem Mehjoor, Ghulam Ahmed Mahjoor’s great-grandson, a school drop-out with a conscious mind is...
Writer’s Solidarity
It was Maqbool Bhat’s hanging that stirred noted short story writer Akhtar Mohi-ud-din, and made him return his Literary Award. Bilal Handoo reports how...
Return to the glory – Mubarak Mandi Complex
Majid Mushtaq Pandit
JAMMU
A grand complex of dilapidated medieval buildings, the Mubarak Mandi complex is a palace situated in the oldest part of the city...
Novroz: The Nouv Zouv
Novruz which marks the beginning of the new season in the Iranian calendar is part of Kashmir’s culture. Syed Iliyas Ali Rizvi details the...
The ‘Sacred’ Seminar
Thirteen years after poet Agha Shahid Ali’s death Kashmir University finally dedicated a seminar to the ‘national poet’. But as things unfolded Bilal Handoo...
Bhaand ‘Diplomacy’
The down spiral of Kashmir’s centuries old folk art Bhaand-e-Paether is often attributed to the turmoil in Kashmir; however, the ‘other’ factors pounding it...
Ali’s K-concerns
by Mir Liyaqat Nazir
Brought up in the trilingual and tri-cultural environment, the late celebrated poet of the valley, Agha Shahid Ali remains Kashmiri to...
Expressive Strokes
What started from his father’s Paper Machie workshop where he used to play with colours as a kid turned into a career for Arshad...
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...
Obituary
Syed Sajjad Hussain
(1954 - 2013)
Rahiba R Parveen
Syed Sajjad Hussain, one of the known literary figures of Kashmir breathed his last on December 12. Hussain,...
In a spell
The high decibel music in the Shalimar garden did not trigger a lot of media interest across the globe, it led to a series...
Sculpting A Change
Unlike other parts of the world sculpting in Kashmir is associated with economy. It has been a source of livelihood rather than a way...
