Culture
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555Cringe 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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Honorifics in retrospect—why western branding is bad for Kashmiri literature
From Rasool Mir, being dubbed as ‘The John Keats’ of Kashmir, to Mehjoor as ‘The Wordsworth’ and Abdul Ahad Azad as ‘The...
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A revival in Kashmir’s ‘theatre of absurd’
As part of Kashmir’s syncretic culture, an obsolete show is springing back due to a showman’s resilient act. A veteran’s Balpora Budgam...
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Death as meditation on life: Rishism in Kashmir
Rishism in Kashmir was an opportunity for women to find new ways of spiritual and literary expression. Kashmir’s indigenous Sufi order, Rishism...
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Kosher mystic in letter and spirit—Rahi goes on
His doting for the Kashmiri language is an eternal love story. In a maudlin atmosphere created by a veteran versifier’s departure lately,...
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Of poet, passage and Persian—How Kashmir influenced Central Asia
A cohort of connoisseurs met in Srinagar’s iconic Amar Singh Club on the cold morning of November 13, 2022 for a literary...
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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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Before Iqbal’s ‘shikwa’, there was Soch Kral’s divine petition
One Sufi song has been creating waves in Kashmir for years now, but its second-to-none poetic distinction remains a mystic mystery till...
