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Divine Drive
The Greater Eid, the Eid al Azha that falls after the Haj pilgrimage is a major Muslim festival. However, the two-and-a-half-day festival that witnesses animal sacrifices the world over is not about...
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The Amarnath Flood
Reviving memories of the 1996 tragedy, the flash flood – the third since 2015, near the cave shrine of Amarnath killed 15 pilgrims and injured many more. Authorities and Kashmir’s political class,...
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‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand...
With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic...
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Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini, Kashmir’s oldest poetic testament...
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Islam’s Informal Kashmir Era
Kashmir’s transition to Islam was neither the outcome of a forced conversion nor an abrupt miracle by any saint. It was a gradual process of interaction and understanding that spanned more than 400...
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Kashmir’s Disappearing Mesaharati
The digitized twenty-first century has bestowed almost everything upon the cell phone to the extent that it has replaced more than 50 things. While the Ramzan drummers were competing with the mosque...
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Within a few months after moving out of the classroom, a young reporter in Kashmir Life landed in a team that shot an infotainment series for Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting. Unprecedented, the...
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Crowded Festival
Even the landslides on Mughal Road prevented a lot of people from joining the Urs, Wangat remained too crowded during the 3-day festival, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani After Covid19 lockdown and the...
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A Hajj of Many Firsts
For Jammu and Kashmir, the Hajj 2023 was a mix of many interesting firsts, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani For Jammu and Kashmir, Hajj 2023 had many firsts. It sent the highest number of pilgrims on Hajj –...
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Mahr Matters
Gradually Muslim women are getting educated about the importance of the Mahr and in lot many weddings the brides seek a berth in the decision-making as it links to their security, status and...
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Muslim Women Inheritance
It is a mixed bag of surprises and challenges when it comes to inheritance in the case of women in Kashmir. Syed Shadab Ali Gillani met a number of women to understand how the institution of...
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The Ramzan Economy
Less working hours, compromised production, a surge in consumption and a visible impact on earnings during the Muslim month of fasting do not prevent charity and positive subjective well-being of...
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Organising Zakat
A group of well-read and well-meaning officers and academics have joined hands and created a trust to manage Kashmir’s Zakat and other charities. Khalid Bashir Gura offers an idea for the ZIST Almost...
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Kashmir: Majzoobs’, Mendicants and Lunatics
Kashmir’s traditional kind treatment of people with disordered mental health was a supplicated way of taking care of them. Over the last few centuries, they were deliberately projected as super-human...
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Amarnath Yatra 2024
A series of interventions have led to better management of the yearly Hindu pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani It started with a huge rush on June 29. “It was a...
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Why Prophet’s Life Is Perpetually Relevant?
In The Sirah of the Prophet: A Contemporary and Original Analysis, Dr Yasir Qadhi weaves together a narrative that transcends time and geography, offering an exploration of the Prophet’s life as a...
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The Making of Jashn-e-Ramzan 2
Four months after travelling more than 3000 km for the 30-episode Jashn-e-Ramzan 2, Syed Shadab Ali Gillani recounts the highs and lows of travelling across fasting Kashmir to interact with people and...
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Jashn-e-Ramzan 2: Editing An Epic
As editor of the 30-part series, Iqra Akhoon shares her transformative quest, and how the pursuit of excellence can transform both the creator and the creation. In February, our newsroom embarked on an...
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Jashn-e-Ramzan 2: Scripting A Show
Babra Wani recounts how she and her team defied hunger and thirst while researching from the most sensitive religious text a script for a show that is now part of Kashmir’s audio-visual history Every...
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Jashn e Ramzan 2: Behind the Lens
Shuaib Wani revisits his 30-day non-stop journey with Umar Dar and Shadab Gillani After the newsroom decided to get into Jashn-e-Ramzan (JeR) 2, with a male host, it took a few days to motivate and...
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