Culture
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1.4KIn Pictures: Muharram, beyond mourning
During the month of Muharram, the Shia community come out with processions across Kashmir. They mourn, wave flags and banners, and recite...
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Kashmiri homes becoming unbearable in summers — why?
Before being brought down in a dramatic manner, drones would capture a corrugated cityscape which once had colourful flowerbeds blooming atop. Amid...
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Leech Therapy: When blood suckers turn healers
Meant to celebrate the rebirth of nature, Nowruz marks the beginning of the Persian New Year. While the spring festival incidentally signifies...
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Photo Essay: Shab-e-Meraj, empty Mosques, and locked-up Khaanqahs
While lighting an incense stick with the flame of a melting candle, Zarnaq, a ten year old girl at Hazratbal told me...
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Chillaikalan to posh-e-teer: Kashmiris going old-school to save their skin
As the cold continues to linger and shiver life, the winter-induced skin ailments have once again reared their ugly heads in the...
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The last boat people: Endless embargo and decaying decks in Kashmir
Behind the current tourism façade, the unaddressed issue of fading boats is distressing Dal Lake dwellers. Part of the problem is said...
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Mother-tongue underlying component of identity, protect linguistic heritage of JK: Farooq Abdullah
Seeks incentivization of publication of journals, magazines, dailies in local languages Srinagar: National Conference (NC) President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar...
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‘You can’t feed a lion grass, or would you?’: A Kashmiri chef responds
You can’t force omnivores to be carnivores, or vice-versa. The cultural food or general culinary habits of a particular people are developed...
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Of journalism and censorship: The forgotten Rahber
Rahber, an institution in Journalism, a photographer who covered the 1931 massacre, was the founder of an Urdu weekly. A member of...
