Reflections
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1.4KFrom tradition to takeout: How fast-food is impacting health and community in Kashmir
It wasn’t long ago that people in Kashmir would sit down to eat together—families, friends, neighbours. The meals were cooked slowly, carefully....
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2.4KWhy Kashmiris must reclaim the soul of Kashmir’s Sufi movement
For centuries, Sufism or Tasawwuf shaped Kashmir’s spiritual and social fabric, balancing mysticism with Islamic law. But today, this legacy faces distortion...
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3.1KReligion 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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5.8KHow fake-filming of Kashmir has become a cinematic dope to masses
Putting aside the political, literary and academic debate, it’s widely known that a Kashmiri society remains deeply imitated by films. In one...
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4.5KPained as Protagonist: How Reel life is becoming Real in Kashmir
The movie opens her closets and rips off bandaids. Bringing forth a lot of pain—the pain which she tried hard to ignore...
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5.4KSahitya spotlight: Did they just confuse Kashmiri criticism with chronology?
Authored as ‘biography’ and awarded as criticism, one of Sahitya winners lately failed to do justice with the spirit of the literary...
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4.7KIn Photos: Spirit of season — festive vibes amid chilling effect
With the arrival of autumn, life turns misty and melancholic in mountains but the spirit of the season lives on. With Chinars...
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4.4KMother—An epitome of simplicity and compassion
Although any death of a loved one can be emotionally devastating, but sudden or untimely deaths give traumatic experiences. It was the...
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48.9KHafizas of Kashmir: Dancers, and dark history of institutionalised flesh trade
By Showkat Rasheid Wani, and Khawar Khan Achakzai. The British had no legal and moral rights to transfer the hereditary and...
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6.2KAn Adage: Mei kyah hatya ker me (Did I commit murder?)
Long before banning of beef in India, and the blasphemy law in Pakistan, a deadly combination of both was implemented and practised...
