Tag: Kashmir

  • Preserving Cultural Crafts

    Preserving Cultural Crafts

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    I’m so heartened by the stories of individuals, families and governments striving to preserve and revive traditional crafts all over the world. In the on-line publication YourStory, Saranya Chakrapani features Shahida Khanum’s efforts to revive the indigenous crafts of her ethnic tribal community of the Gujjars who live in a remote village in Kashmir. At…

  • A Somber Patient Way to Fight

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    Sana Altaf reviews Towfeeq Wani’s novel The Graveyard: a saga of a million bloodstained flowers.  Set in Kashmir during the 2008-2010 uprising Wani’s emotional narrative is “likely to resonate with many Kashmiris.” Agha Shahid Ali would have been proud. Were the famous Kashmiri poet alive today (he died in 2001), he would have surely commented on the…