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...
Molvi Rasul Shah (1855-1909)
Mirwaiz Rasul Shah followed Sir Syed Ahmad Khan at a time when the educational deficit had started crippling Kashmiri Muslims, writes M J Aslam
Mirwaiz...
Hanging By The Relic
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq led Awami Action Committee (AAC) was barred from celebrating its Golden Jubilee last month. The party that has remained part of...
Kashmir’s First Preacher
In this brief write-up, Dr Darakhshan Abdullah offers an idea about Islam’s emphasis on preaching while offering basic details about Kashmir’s first missionary preacher,...
‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand the...
With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s...
Cast In Stone
A mosque constructed by the most celebrated Mughal Queen, Nur Jahan, in the heart of Srinagar fought a lot of negative narratives to survive...
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...
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....
Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri (1875-1933)
One of the greatest Muhadith’s from Kashmir, Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri was a poet and a great Islamic scholar, writes MJ Aslam
Mawlana Shah Mohammad...
Dear Faithful Mutton Eater
Assalam-u-Alikum,
After fasting for 15 hours a day in humid July’s scorching heat, everyone of us in Kashmir is genuinely busy managing the best feast...
Kashmir’s Amir-e-Kabir Days
The period between 1371 and 1405, during the initial days of the Shahmiri Sultanate, was extremely crucial in Kashmir’s transition to Islam. It witnessed...
Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...
How The Holy Quran Has Remained In Its Original Form For Nearly One and...
by Sameer Rather
The Holy Qurán has remained in its original pristine form and will remain as such in the future by the grace and...
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...
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...
