With the sudden scenic shift, the fresh snowfall has brought out a lot of emotions in Kashmir. Just before dawn, muezzin wakes up to check the clock. The septuagenarian grabs his phone on the side of his bed and gets up to perform ablution. He puts on his pheran before stepping out for the wake-up…
From voguish hat to warrior headgear, Kashmir wears in all in the spell of chill. A proscribed drone shot wouldโve shown a freeze frame dotted with the vibrant hatted heads. Thatโs how winter looks like in the valley grappling with the biting cold. Head with hat is grasped as a โtopโ defence against the โGeneral…
They may be singing songs on its springiness, but Jhelum is gradually changing its course in Kashmir. And much of that change has to do with the reflection of times. Anger that exploded on its banks in the fall of 2014 is still visible in the form of the stonewashed signs and symbols. That fury…
Srinagarโs entry into UNESCOโs creative cities network in the category of โFolk Art and Craftโ has once again revived the significance of the heritage city and its landmarks. A swarm of faithful has an outpouring gusto about them as they arrive to participate in Urs of Dastgeer Sahib in Old Cityโs Khanyar area. The hallowed…
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…
As they reap what they sow in spring, Kashmirโs golden landscape at once turns festive with harvest hands and hymns in autumn. Sweat beads shine their furrowed foreheads as the scorching sun in a sleepy hamlet glows the golden swathes of paddy fields. In this pastoral portrait, Kashmirโs farmers reap the harvest with festive vibes.…
In the summer capital rattling by civilian killings, cops are checking, among the assailants, the third wave with the strict mask implementation. But despite the baton order, the commoners are unwittingly unmasking their agonized faces. That Delhi has dispatched some top counterinsurgents in the wake of capital killings and on the heels of Raj Bhavanโs…
Beyond the blitz created by the ongoing brush strokes, Srinagar is changing and so are its signs which once made it a pulsating city. At the farther corner of the Poloview street where an artist crew lately arrived to paint a parking lot into a leisure junction, a signboard of Kashmirโs genuine craft is silently…
Despite everything, the faces in Kashmir havenโt given up on their grace. The spirit to take everything on their chin and move on with their lives makes many wonder about the retained humanization in the vale. Some half a dozen aged men, well past their superannuation, are doing a passionate political commentary inside a tailorโs…
To retain sanity in trouble terrain, many young Kashmiris have found an escape route in hillwalking. Such recreational trips in times of substance abuse and searing regulations are now involving more and more distressed professionals from different fields. At the summit of the 2010 โsummer stormโ, Owais Shamsi became an โimpatient inmateโ in his own…