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Dear Faithful Mutton Eater
Assalam-u-Alikum, After fasting for 15 hours a day in humid July’s scorching heat, everyone of us in Kashmir is genuinely busy managing the best feast on Tuesday, this Eid. It is a divine order that...
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Ahlan Ramadhan
For the first time in Kashmir’s TV history, a Srinagar based media outlet is trying to capture the essence of Ramadhan for local audiences. Syed Asma reports how team Associated Media overcame...
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Masjid Matters
From once lively socio-religious places where even affairs of the state used to be discussed mosques are now mere prayer halls. Raashid Maqbool finds out how state’s intervention and mushroom of...
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Right to Vandalize
With people trying to shadow environmental concerns by invoking religion the controversy surrounding Kousar Nag yatra refuses to die down. Shah Abbas tries to understand the perils of fiddling with...
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The Sikh Camaraderie
A relief camp started by Kashmiri Sikhs a day before deluge hit Srinagar inside a Gurduwara in uptown Srinagar provided timely rescue and relief to thousands of flood-ravaged people. Three weeks after,...
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‘The helpers of God’
Their founder Moulana Maududi called Jama’at as ‘the helpers of God,’ who were seen rescuing and providing relief to flood-hit recently. Bilal Handoo sums up Jama’at-e-Islamia’s work during the deluge...
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Flooded Faithfully
It was not individual greed or the policy failure at the highest decision-making levels only that Kashmir’s watercourse is facing barriers. Even the faithful tried their bit to get the revered spots of...
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#WhoIsMuhammad
As gunmen barged inside the office of French Magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people including the celebrated cartoonists known for their controversial cartoons on the prophet of Islam, an...
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Judging the Victims!
Gulzar Peer’s acquittal shocked everybody including police. With fake Peer back behind bars and case listed in the High Court, Saima Bhat takes a look at the controversial judgment that bailed Peer out...
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The Guardians
From once bustling households to dreaded torture centers and military camps, pandit properties in Kashmir have withstood time and politics. Bilal Handoo travels across Kashmir to unmask the heroes...
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Settling Controversy
As the government plans creating ‘composite’ townships for getting migrant Kashmiri Pandits back home, it has triggered lot of heat and dust with people protesting the ‘exclusive’ enclosures. Given the...
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Festive Longings
With the dawn of May 26 each year, Kashmiri Pandits massively date Kashmir by turning up for annual Kheerbhavani Mela. Of late as the day has become an occasion of reliving past without actually...
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Sheltering Neighbours
When state offered Santosh Rs 1500 for reconstruction of her flood damaged house, she was devastated. But thanks to unknown pious souls, Santosh and her family now have a roof over their heads. Suhail...
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The Cow Divide
For nearly 200 years, beef was a whisper and not the talk. Then, hearths would go up in flames with homes and the human resource if it cooked beef. Fear of reprisals created a new folklore and...
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How is Eid-al-Azha Celebrated?
KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR KL file Image by BILAL BAHADUR The festival marks the end of Hajj and involves animal sacrifice as a symbol of Prophet Ibrahim’s (AS) sacrifice to Allah Muslims around the...
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Faith Survives
Released five years after the 2011 headcount, the religious tables reiterate J&K’s Muslim majority status. But what makes the statistics interestingly intriguing is the situation of the minorities....
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Faithful Gathering
With people flocking from different corners of Kashmir to sell their livestock, Srinagar’s Eidgah is a busy place before Eid-ul-Azha. Muhammad Raafi spends a day at Kashmir’s biggest livestock market...
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Rethinking The Masjid and The Waqf
By Tariq Jameel Jamia Masjid in New Delhi (Representational Pic) A place of worship is primarily meant for carrying out ritual acts of prayer. For any religious community, these are important places,...
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Covalent Bonds
Even after pricked and provoked by fringe elements time and again, Kashmir has upheld its tradition of communal harmony to the wonder of many, reports Mohammad Raafi Muslims cremating a deceased pandit...
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Kitsch Karate
A decade after Guru Bazaar’s Farooq Dar aka Bita Karate walked out of his seventeen-year-long prison life, the blast from the past continues to resound his life. The man whom many Kashmiri Pandit...
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