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5.7KThe Turks of Old City and their 500-yr-old crumbling ‘aroma’ empire
Followers of Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, the Kozgars came to Kashmir from Turkey some 500 years ago and settled in Old Srinagar...
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Travelogue: Finding yourself ‘off the road’ at Warwan Valley
What’s your escape route? How do you move out of your comfort zone into the wilderness? What’s so intriguing about this other...
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‘Mass hysteria’ or horrific reality: Four women with chopped jewels detail the devil
Just outside her home, the boys are running after the suspicious shadows. Down the streets, they sit, fuming, scanning every passerby. Three...
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#WorldSmilesDay: Children of Kashmir
World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday in the month of October every year. The idea of World Smile Day...
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Shaping the wood: The sawdust-filled world of a Bandsaw
A bandsaw (also written band saw) is a saw with a long, sharp blade consisting of a continuous band of toothed metal...
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Mourning in Frames
The tragedy of Karbala that occurred fifty years after the death of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is a unique event of Islamic History...
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Zulaikha the Nomad: ‘We spend our life the way our Prophet (PBUH) did’
The nomadic life of the Bakarwals of Jammu and Kashmir, is strange and mysterious. One of the least reported and documented sections of...
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Photo Essay: Between the Devil and the deep blue sea, children of the Rohingya…
Jammu: The Rohingyas, a stateless ethnic group loathed by many of Myanmar’s Buddhist majority, were forced to leave their homes after a...
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In pictures: Sun drying walnuts in Anantnag
Anantnag: Walnuts form an important part of people’s lives in this part of Kashmir. Locally called Dooyn, or Doyn in the more authentic...
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A day before Eid, a One Day Peace
For a day or two, the air in and around Srinagar might almost seem devoid of the memories of tear gas and...
