Video By: Rayees Ahmed | Article By: Sajad Rasool At a time when most of the students in Kashmir rush for competitive exams and engineering, Nazim Nazir a 19-year-old young man of Pulwama Kashmir, a college-going student is one of the few youngest entrepreneurs of Kashmir taking his life in a very creative direction. Nazim […]
Video by: Rafiqa Bano | Text By: Sajad Rasool Kangri, a fire pot keeps Kashmir people warm during the severe cold wave in winters. It works as a mobile heater during the season when temperature dips down to minus 20 degrees. Kangri is usually kept inside a woolen
Video By: Rafiqa Bano | Text By: Sajad Rasool Traditional bone setting is quite popular in India. Traditional bone setters (TBS) are one of the largest specialist groups practicing traditional medicine in Kashmir. These are the indigenous specialists who have never been to any medical college but are able to treat many orthopedic problems effectively. […]
Video By: Sajad Shah | Text By: Sajad Rasool Kulgam, Kashmir: The Handmade carpets of Kashmir are world famous. But with the introduction of machine made carpets, the demand for this exquisite matting from Kashmir has saw decline in demand. The old carpet makers are finding it difficult to find new trainees for this craft.This […]
Video by: Mir Yaseen | Text by: Shafat Mir. The nomadic community of Kashmir, Bakerwals, enter the valley during summer seasons every year. Mostly coming from the humid region of Jammu, these people graze their livestock in the highlands of the Kashmir region which has a cooler climatic conditions all through the summer season. Kashmir […]
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has been planning to provide Tragbal meadows in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district to the Army for setting up an artillery firing range, a replacement of the Tosa Maidan field firing range which was vacated by the army after a collective movement by several rights groups and locals. Earlier, the […]
Video & Text By Shafat Mir | 14 April 2016 As the season for the migratory communities to head towards remote highlands of Kashmir nears, the kids of these people will have to shun their studies through the entire season. These nomads go to pastures and mountains for cattle rearing and the season stretches up […]
Video By: Nadiya Shafi | Text By: Shafat Mir | 08 April 2016 These are the indigenous specialists who have never been to any medical college but are able to treat many orthopedic problems effectively. People from across the Kashmir valley flock such specialists to get the treatments done when the hospitals don’t prove out of […]
