Tales of Kashmir

Dr. Qazi Nisar Ahmad and the brief, unrepeated unity he built across a fracturing valley On 19 June 1994, Dr. Qazi Nisar Ahmad was assassinated in Dialgam, on the outskirts of Islamabad town in South Kashmir's Anantnag district. He was forty-two. …

Some lives leave behind monuments of stone. Others leave behind kingdoms, dynasties, or revolutions that alter the course of history. Arnimal left behind something far more fragile and yet infinitely more enduring — a handful of songs carried across g…

The life, philosophy, and enduring poetic legacy of one of nineteenth-century Kashmir's most celebrated Sufi voices.  In the valleys of Kashmir, where every season carries stories of human emotions and every mountain has witnessed centuries of lon…