Taking Quran to Dogras’
Amid tensions across J&K, there is one great development: the Quran is finally having a Dogri translation and it will be out this summer....
Not In Good Faith
The ground zero debates dominating the spaces of faith and belief indicate divisions and sub-divisions of a society that was considered homogeneous, reports Muhammad...
Untouchability Reforms in J&K
A BJP lawmaker funding upper caste crematoriums and more recently the Jammu University faculty getting invitations with their category mentioned on the covers, seemingly...
Kashmir’s Jewish Connection
Scores of books and ethnolinguistic literature have been around to explain who the Lost Tribes of Israel took refuge in Kashmir. The authors studied...
Shared Motherhood
When a couple that had stayed put at the peak of migration of Kashmiri Pandits, died between a year, the responsibility of taking care...
Sanctum Security
Part of the faith heritage, shrines help decipher Kashmir’s historic and socio-economic narrative. In twenty-first century, a shrine is lost to a fire every...
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...
Buta Malik Lives!
After a formal Board took over the management of the yearly Amarnath yatra, stakeholding of Purohits, Mahant’s and the Maliks’ of Batakote was over....
The Conversation
When Amarnath pilgrims from different cultures, economic backgrounds and languages ride a horse in Chandanwari or hire a Palki to the cave, they stay...
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...
A beautiful Edifice
The famous Imam Bargah of Budgam is blend of traditional Iranian and modern architecture. Aabid Hussain reports how the space is serving people since...
A Mosque for all
Before a small misunderstanding over praying space between two communities could have escalated into a major crisis, someone came with a novel solution. Four...
Ramzan Times
Behind the visible economic slowdown, many things happen during the yearly month of fasting. Saima Bhat offers an idea about how people try to...
Cow Concerns
After police was forced to act against right wing cow vigilantes, a situation was created in Muslim majority Reasi’s main town that they were...
