Posts By Ali Saffudin
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11.1KPoetryFor the love of language: Kashmir’s new age Urdu poets—Part II
Showcasing her multilingual poetic expertise on social media, rhymester Rumuz E Bekhudi has emerged as one of the promising poets from Kashmir...
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11.2KIn Depth
For the love of language: Kashmir’s new age Urdu poets—Part I
From the 13th century saintly figures like Lal Ded and Shiekh ul Aalam to progressive writers like Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor and Abdul...
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4.2KFeature
Why ‘tourism mascots’ Adnan Sami and Lucky Ali failed to lift the mood at Ghat No. 27
Using Music for politics, this fall, the Indian musicians arrived in the security-ringed SKICC to entertain a select few, while the Shikara...
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3.7KSociety
Muharram 2017: When a religious event turned colourful with a stark message
The young Shia generation is as politically mature and receptive as perhaps anyone else in Kashmir. To give sense of that understanding,...
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4.8KBusiness
Uprooted in 2014 flood, ‘Nadru’ has made a surprising comeback in an unexpected place, paddy fields!
Moving from the murky waters of Dal Lake, ‘Nadru’ has now a new address in Kashmir: Ganderbal’s paddy fields. The amazing agricultural...
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8.5KWeb 101
Pakistani Rock bands that mixed ‘loudness’ with local ethos
Atif Aslam just made news in and around Kashmir when he sang a Kashmiri song in the ‘Pepsi Battle of the Bands’...
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5.3KConflict
Detailing the dreaded 90s: The varsity’s nightmarish newsprints
Part of history, and horror now, the happenings of the 90s—when military operations like ‘Catch and Kill’ would subject the rebellious population...
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3.5KSociety
Protest, poetry and the blazing chinar: A silent art revolution in the University of Kashmir
“Rising buildings and rising machines, have taken away all my teens, taken away all my fields to play, taken away all my...
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24.5KWeb 101
8 documentary films about Kashmir that you can watch online
Youtube has become one of the most popular and easily accessible medium for viewing documentary films which otherwise did not find the...
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4.2KCulture
Meet Jaffer Bhai Ittar Walle, who ran away to become a spy but found his calling in fragrances
When the son of a Kashmiri military man fled to Bombay to become a spy in the dramatic seventies, he ended up...
