The Orphanage Business
Kashmir orphans are a dispossessed lot. Some of them are slowly falling prey to a stressful life spent behind the closed walls of ramshackled...
The Shrine Contribution
A small shrine nested in Kashmir’s Pir Panchal Mountains in Shahadra Sharief funded a huge university in Rajouri’s backyard. The Ghulam Shah Badshah University...
In the line of ‘faith’
In a land known for its shrines and mosques, construction of a new mosque is no big news. But this mosque is unique not...
Jam them while you pray
Disparate cell phone ringing tones during prayers often irk many inside the mosques. Some mosque management bodies have discovered and installed jammers inside mosques...
Fixing ailments with Ramzan
Experts believe that the changing dietary habits during the holy month of Ramzan is the best way to deal with obesity, hypertension and other...
The Ramzan Blessing
A highly stressful Kashmir society dogged by cancers and cardiac crisis is consuming tons of nutritious, anti-carcinogenic, soothing super-foods to break evening fast. R...
Paying obeisance,not heed
SAMEER YASIR treks up to the Amarnath cave shrine via Baltal in Sonmarg. He is appalled by the amount of pollution the annual pilgrimage...
Clash of cultures
As caravans of pilgrims on way to Amarnath cave shrine pass through the quaint villages of Pahalgam, the quiet and harmonious social environment gets...
Serving the faith
The conduct of the Amarnath pilgrimage is a garguntaun task every year. A huge number of government employees from almost all the departments have...
The Invisible Palanquin Man
Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus visit the Kashmir Himalayas every year for pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine. Many old, infirm or rich...
Night at the Graveyard
Cemeteries across the valley witness an unprecedented rush during the night of Shab-e-Baraat. Bilal Handoo reports on this tradition of visiting the final resting...
Loss and Anger
An eyewitness account of the devastating fire at Khanyar last Monday in which the shrine of Dastgeer Sahib was destroyed.
Early Monday morning Khanyar was...
![Mourning the Loss[Photo: Yasir Muhammad]](https://kashmirlife.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2012-910-218x150.jpg "The Revered Dastgeer Sahab")
The Revered Dastgeer Sahab
In the heart of Srinagar, the shrine of Dastgeer sahib withstood tests of time for more than two centuries. Kashmir has now lost this...
![The burning Shrine[Photo: Bilal Bahadur]](https://kashmirlife.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-913-218x150.jpg "Neglecting The Essence")
Neglecting The Essence
Kashmir has slowly been losing its essence - influences and heritage that inform its faith and culture - to callousness and exigencies of conflict...
The Exception
Shrines in Kashmir are regarded by many as places of worship, of hope and promise. But in most of these shrines, women are kept...
