To prank or not to prank!
Tabish Rafiq Mir explains the nature of pranks, their constitution, and how they act as a means of extraction of capital.
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In Pictures: Of burnt-down homes and memories
The encounter in Shopian left behind a trail of destruction in it's wake, of not just burnt-down homes but memories as well. Journalists Mohammad Dawood and Ibrahim Mussa traveled to Shopian to capture the remains of the three-day encounter.
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Communion with the dead: In conversation with Alana Hunt
Cups of Nun Chai (2020) by Alana Hunt is a book that is both an eulogy of lost Kashmiri lives and their remembrance through conversations over cups of nun-chai (salty pink tea).
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Mahraaz sund nov booth
In this delicious skit, etiquette gives Koshur society the boot, and the society returns the favour, leaving behind only love and kinship.
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“I felt Faiz’s heart ached for Kashmir,” – Kashmiri journalist’s 1967 interview with Faiz Ahmad Faiz
In this 1967 interview of Urdu language’s star poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz with Kashmiri journalist Shamim Ahmad Shamim, the poet reminisces on his time spent in Kashmir.
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