Opinion
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520Mother, father, and teacher—A Kashmiri child’s ode to life
Poetry is my hobby. I love poetry because it helps me to share my feelings, my thoughts and opinions regarding things I...
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Ode to Abba: A Kashmiri weaver’s devotional life
Of all things criminal in life, the criminality of withering relationships feels the worst. Drowning the voice, which mustn’t stay unheard, like...
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Religion and Science: What makes life possible on earth?
In this piece, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, United States, argues that scientific facts are in complete agreement with the verses...
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Rehman Rahi’s language legacy has a new heir-apparent and he has a book too
Whatever literature, small or big, is wrought out in Kashmir, is largely either in English or occasionally in Urdu. Not many writers...
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Remembering Billu—the pet emotion of my life
‘My mother always used to say that Billu came with fortune. When he was there, we never faced any problem.’ I was...
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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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Kashmir: Why investing in real estate is a good bet
Real estate is a great area for investment in Kashmir since it provides both a security blanket and significant returns over the...
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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...
