In the Kashmiri language, the sun is called aftaab, the moon is zoon and wind is hawa. In the opening tale of The Legend of Himal and Nagrai — a collection of Kashmiri folk tales translated into ...

Yana Mir, a Kashmiri activist and journalist who recent statement in the UK Parliament went viral has now alleged mistreatment from the customs at the Delhi Airport. However, the Delhi Customs has ...

Delhi: Twenty-year-old Simran Bhat puts on a red bindi, throws her mother’s pink dupatta over her shoulders, and hooks a bronze chain earring onto the upper bridge of her ear. With her father holding ...

When 22-year-old Touqeer Ashraf arrived in Srinagar for his education, he was struck by the way people spoke. “Not only young people, I saw even the elderly talking to the young in Urdu,” said Ashraf, ...

Kashmiri, or Koshur, is officially spoken by approximately 7 million Kashmiris, primarily in the Kashmir Valley and the Chenab Valley in Jammu. The language is mainly written in Perso-Arabic script, ...

For centuries, the Kashmiri language has survived only through oral traditions; by 2013, those who could write the script fell to just 5%. This year, two technological giants, Microsoft and Google, ...

Meanka Handu was in Class 2 when her family had to leave their ancestral home in Srinagar, to eventually settle in what is now Noida. Their flight was part of the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in ...