Life Across LoC: Inside the only heritage museum of PaK
Inside the only Heritage Museum of Pakistan-administered-Kashmir (PaK), Nishtar College Folk Heritage Museum. Photograph by Koma Raja for The Kashmir Walla
Life Across LoC: From Mian Bakhsh’s darbar in Mirpur
I always adored Saif-ul-Muluk, poetry by great Sufi saint Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, since childhood. I spent countless summer evenings sitting on Takatposh (Wooden bed)...
Life Across LOC: In ‘Pearl Valley’ I’m no Snow White
The ‘Pearl Valley’ of Pakistan-administered-Kashmir, or generally known as Rawalakot, Poonch, is snow covered in the winters. As per locals, once a ‘Gora sahib’...
Life Across LoC: From ‘calinders’ to ‘tola’, a peek into daily transport
Standing under the sun, outside the Adil Hotel of Peervadhai in Rawalpindi, I was waiting for the Hiace to arrive. The waiting area was...
Agha Shahid Ali: A portrait of longingness
Agha Shahid Ali. Photograph credit: Copyright © 1990 by Stacey Chase.
“Let me cry out in that void,...
Seven quotes by Agha Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Seventeen years ago, today on 8 December, Kashmir's poet Agha Shahid Ali passed away, leaving behind volumes of his work. A...
Celebrating Diwali in Kashmir
Mushtaq Ahmad Kumar, 40, selling Diyas outside a temple in Srinagar city on the day of Diwali. Photograph by Bhat Burhan for The Kashmir...
What was Manan Wani reading?
Scholar turned militant in Kashmir, Manan Wani, 26, in one of his letters had written that he was reading "politics, learning sciences and deliberating...
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