Special Report
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549Nasha Mukt JK Padyatra signals a growing public movement against drugs
Across Jammu & Kashmir, a quiet but determined shift is taking shape. The Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyan is no longer...
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884How Kashmiri monks transformed Buddhist thought in China
Kashmiri monks and scholars carried Buddhist philosophy, texts and learning across the Silk Route to help shape Chinese Buddhism. The valley of...
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899This Mother’s Day, remember women waiting to become mothers
This Mother’s Day, while the world celebrates mothers and the joy of motherhood, let us also remember the women whose hearts have...
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1.8KZaal, Marg, Sum, Trag: Old Kashmiri words living in Vakhs of Lal Ded
Lal Ded, the fourteenth-century mystic-poet of Kashmir, known variously as Lalleshwari, Lal Arifa, and Lal Ded, composed her vakhs in a language...
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2.0KFrom Qalb to Inquilaab: How Kashmir became central to Faiz’s life and work
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was not only one of the greatest poets of the Urdu language, but he was the language unto himself....
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1.7KQuran in Kashmiri and beyond: A journey of faith through local languages
For centuries, Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir have recited the Quran in classical Arabic. But understanding every Verse of the divine text...
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2.0KWhen a language loses its landscape: Handur and shin mani in Kashmiri language
Ask a young person in the Valley today what the Kashmiri word for “glacier” is, and you will likely get a puzzled...
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2.3KAlgorithm of distraction: Kashmir Instagram and the death of thought
I woke up early in the morning to activate my Instagram for the weekend. I had deactivated it only yesterday. Partly in...
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2.6KThe linguistic world of Gurezi Shina and its strong Kashmiri influence
In Gurez, language does not announce itself as a marker of identity; it simply exists, woven into daily life. Shina is spoken...
