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Visiting Wular, one of Asia’s largest freshwater lake, has always been more than just a travel dream for me. It is a recurring longing. I had first seen it as a boy when my family lived on the banks of the Jhelum in a Sopur mohallah called Hati Shah, named after the Sufi saint Hathi … Read more

In a world increasingly torn by barbed borders of language, faith, and region, Harmukh, the first ever Kashmiri-Kannada bilingual feature film, dares to speak the language of humanity. It is not a spectacle of fantasy, nor a melodrama , instead a lived fable, spoken through real voices and faltering accents, through silence that echoes louder … Read more

The book Jangael Naar is a Kashmir translation of the award winning novel Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai, a prominent Indian Novelist. It has been translated in Kashmiri by Prof Farooq Fayaz, a Sahitya Acadamy award winning author, academic who has already worked on wide variety of themes pertaining to Kashmir history, folklore … Read more

Shad Ramzaan’s recent poem “Katej Mayani Gamitch (The swallow of my village ) seems on the surface a tender story of a swallow returning to her birthplace after years of absence. But like the bird herself katij in Kashmiri, the poem carries more than feathers and flight. It carries memory, longing, loss, displacement and perhaps most importantly, a quiet plea to remember what we once were as … Read more

A few weeks back, I had the privilege of calling upon Prof. Shafaq Sopori at his residence in Gogo, Humhama, Srinagar. We sat in a quiet room with books, notations, and manuscripts all around. Dr. Sopori welcomed me like an old friend. What followed was not just a conversation but a pilgrimage into the life … Read more