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Cringe not creativity: Are Kashmiri social-media influencers normalising misogyny?

The image of a Kashmiri woman is being trivialized in reels, videos, skits in the name of creative freedom. Sehrish Hayat couldn’t...

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Of Vakhs and Shruks: The gnostic exchange between two Kashmiri mystics

“If Lal Ded roasts our hearts on the fire of love, then Nund Reshi does nothing less than move a mountain.” Lal...

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In Photos | Stillness and slog in snowbound Kashmir

Trapped in winter, they prepare for spring. And that literally defines the spirit of the valley. Away from the urban snarl-ups and...

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When a driver’s heroics stopped baker’s madness at Kashmir’s Ashmuqam

While ferrying the early-morning slaughter victims to hospital in his cab, Nisar saw a naked person in front of his cab. He...

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Kashmir in drug net: The two friends who cure, not criminalise, addicts

In past five years, two college friends have helped 150 addicts to shun drugs and it is these people who now work...

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Kashmir in drug net: Dark visitors of an abandoned house

Amid crackdown on Drug-Mafia, a medico’s shocking update on Kashmir’s ‘epidemic of drug abuse’ has only questioned the community complacency on the...

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Totem of Nund Reshi’s town continues to charm Kashmir

A veteran in the hometown of Kashmir’s patron saint tells a charming chronicle of craft and culture. The good-old radio and hookah...

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‘Our skill is our saviour’: Meet master matrons of Kashmir

They’re unassuming, unsung sheroes of Kashmir’s cottage industry. Checkpora, Chadoora — In this calm countryside pocket planted with wailing willows and longstanding...