Tag: Eidgah


  • Some Kashmiris who lost their loved ones to the strife situation have picked up an uncanny routine with time to bring some solace in their battered lives.ย  The four visitors that defied the graveyard silence with their spoken sorrows made a summer day even more restive for the cemetery regulars. They came and whispered prayers…

  • Before it would become wannabe driversโ€™ training territory, Eidgah had become Kashmirโ€™s signpost of conflict casualties. The sprawling ground for special congregational prayers would shrink once strife made it a war-turf of sorts. Hafeeza strolls every day around Srinagarโ€™s Eidgah area for morning and evening walks from Ael Masjid to the martyrsโ€™ graveyard, Mazaar-e-Shuhada, with…