Opinion
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698Nasha 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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1.0KThis 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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1.5KFrom Hunder to Kunair: Vanishing old-Kashmiri words preserved in Sheikh ul Alam’s verses
Among the great voices of Kashmiri spiritual literature, Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani, revered as Sheikh ul Alam, the patron saint of Kashmir, stands...
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485Untouchable: A day of humiliation, hope and humanity
The concept of Untouchability does not only stand for making differences within the social classes of people based on caste, but it...
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2.0KZaal, 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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568More than a memoir: A life that mirrors Kashmir
Nazir Ahmad Khan’s Biscoe Boy: Echoes of Time stands as a remarkable work of memory, insight, and quiet brilliance. It is not...
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1.8KRewriting Sikandar Shahmiri’s legacy: Power, politics, and the myth of iconoclasm
Sikandar Shahmiri, the seventh sultan of Kashmir’s Shah Miri dynasty – who ruled from 1398 C.E. till his death in 1413 C.E....
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2.2KFrom 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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1.9KQuran 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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2.3KBook review: Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet is not a typical book with a story, characters, or plot. Instead, it is a collection of...
