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...
A Shariah Sultanate
Within decades of their rule when Muslims were still a minority, Shahmiri Sultans took the advice of their spiritual leaders seriously and implemented Shariah,...
Those who stayed back
As New Delhi woos migrant Kashmiri Pandits back to Valley with financial packages, those who stayed back through turbulent years were almost ignored. MAJID...
A for Amarnath
In a situation dominated by a historic dip in tourist footfalls in Kashmir and Gau Rakhshaks managing mixed population areas in mainland India, when...
The Sikh Camaraderie
A relief camp started by Kashmiri Sikhs a day before the deluge hit Srinagar inside a Gurudwara in uptown Srinagar provided timely rescue and...
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...
Settling Controversy
As the government plans creating ‘composite’ townships for getting migrant Kashmiri Pandits back home, it has triggered lot of heat and dust with people...
Mosques First, Schools Later
years after a devastating earthquake flattened a vast area straddling the LoC, Sameer Yasir spent a day in Uri to understand that the area...
Fear, Insecurity
Civilians have remained the main collateral damage of the three decades of turmoil. Amid restoration of peace claims when a series of selective killings...
Kashmir: The Haj Economy
Almost every year, more than 30,000 Muslims go on Haj and Umrah pilgrimages from Jammu and Kashmir and spend more than Rs 750 crore....
Facing The Music
Gulzar Bhat left carpet weaving and opted for carving out a niche of his own from the surging ‘faith business’. In a society preoccupied...
Minority Minions?
As a Parliamentary Committee strongly suggests J&K government must consider declaring migrant Kashmiri Pandits a minority given the “pitiable condition” they live in, R...
Rebuilding the shrine
Dastgeer Sahib Shrine in Srinagar’s Khanyar area caught mysterious fire on June 25, 2012. The flames subsequently reduced the 200-year-old shrine into a heap of...
Arzan Kakh
Pandits left and kept their keys with Muslims. Pandits who stayed back died and were cremated by Muslims. This all is reported already. But...
Surviving A Genocide
The perilous journey of Rohingya Muslims from hostile Burma to Kashmir is literally drenched in blood. Two Kashmiri journalists offer an idea of how...
