โKids today go out in the snow for a couple of hours, take a couple of selfies and that is winter for them.โ One cold winter morning in 1962, 14-year-old Arshad woke up to his small, single-storied house in Maharaj Gunj Downtown, covered in snow.ย As he tip-toed, trying to sneak out, his mother caught…
Netizens said that forcing people to take off Pheran in the bone-chilling cold is unacceptable. BANDIPORA โ The arbitrary removal of Pheran of people visiting the Deputy Commissionerโs office in Bandipora has led to an outrage in Kashmir. On Tuesday, a video went viral on social media depicting people taking off their Pheran in a…
Drivers in Kashmir are known for putting out some amusing lines on their cab screens and shields. While the world around them is changing fast, they still carry their pining hearts and painful couplets. In the city of seven bridges swooped by scrutiny swarm, a pensive man is finding it hard to run his survival…
โWhen the guests started pouring in, I saw them all more like examiners, and the big day like an examination which they would evaluate as per some standard which keeps updating its regulations more frequently than UGC which I was piling my fright about.โ Itโs been almost a month now that the wedding of my…
A Kashmiri Pandit body campaign followed by a recent communiquรฉ from New Delhi has made many believe that the Nastaliq script might go the language way in Kashmir. After blitz and berserk bunch of edicts, brouhaha backed by rightwing lobby has now alarmed Koshur literati circles. The concern stems from the bolstering campaign led by…
To summon up the supreme sacrifice of the Imam, mourners thronged streets in Kashmir recently only to face the vexed mood. Swarms of sorrowers left behind a streak of sadness as they passed through manned streets with the shimmering name on their lips, tears in their eyes, and thumps on their heaving chests. As the…
Trends have changed, philosophies of existence and their manifestations too have made a brutal and radical shift towards the โdistortions of something-ness.โ The world once had experienced Socrates, walking down from wild forest, with a swing of gestures on his face, reflecting a deep search with an endless pulse of confusions. The collective social psychology…