Firdous Ahmad Lone

From Hunder to Kunair: Vanishing old-Kashmiri words preserved in Sheikh ul Alam’s verses

Among the great voices of Kashmiri spiritual literature, Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani, revered as Sheikh ul Alam, the patron saint of Kashmir, stands...

Lal Ded, the fourteenth-century mystic-poet of Kashmir, known variously as Lalleshwari, Lal Arifa, and Lal Ded, composed her vakhs in a language...

For centuries, Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir have recited the Quran in classical Arabic. But understanding every Verse of the divine text...

Ask a young person in the Valley today what the Kashmiri word for “glacier” is, and you will likely get a puzzled...

While the precise origin of the Kashmiri language remains unclear, it is an indisputable and evident fact that, over the centuries, Kashmiri...

In Gurez, language does not announce itself as a marker of identity; it simply exists, woven into daily life. Shina is spoken...