Tales of Kashmir

There is a hill above Srinagar where a saint has lain buried for four hundred and fifty years, and where people still climb the steep stairway to visit him. Almost everything known about him traces back to one devoted disciple's pen — and, further…

For thirty-odd years, if a Kashmiri family had exhausted every other door, they went to Gojwara-born Dr. Ali Jan. He asked few questions, touched a wrist, watched a face, and named the illness before the patient had finished describing it. People call…

ln a world where many people carry stories they never get a chance to tell, writing becomes a bridge between silence and expression. For Syed Fatiqah, a young writer from Nadihal, Bandipora, writing is not merely an art form — it is a way of understan…

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…