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, asserting that the undoing of half capital status will help the City of Srinagar revive its inherent strengths
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha visits Civil Secretariat as Darbar resumes full functioning at Jammu in the first week of November 2020. Pic: DIPR
In the days gone by, a widely prevalent social tradition in Jammu was to bid a joyous farewell to the dead who had two generations of progeny. It was seen as a good fortune to have died after having grandchildren. Often one would see funeral processions humming “
mar gayajee mar gay, poatay wala mar gaye!
The demise of the
KU’s MERC Celebrates International Women’s Day
Webinar on International Women’s Day organized by the Media Education Research Centre (MERC), Kashmir University
An official handout said that prominent female media professionals, Anuradha Bhasin, Rukhsana Jabeen, Dr Surbhi Dahiya and Shahana Butt graced the occasion and shared their experiences as media professionals
Listing the challenges women in media face while discharging their duties, Executive Editor of The Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin discussed the changing face of journalism particularly in the context of Jammu and Kashmir. “The stereotyping and conflict have pushed women out of newsrooms”, she remarked.
“However, the arrival of newly trained professionals is helping women to reclaim their space in the newsrooms”, she added.
Khalid Bashir
NAMING and renaming places and old or new infrastructure by a government is a common practice all over the world. However, it is not always that these officially assigned names click with the people. In Kashmir, there are several instances when christening or rechristening of places, roads and bridges by a government has failed to meet public acceptance.
In olden times, Kashmir was divided into two parts – Kamraz and Maraz – representing the north and south parts of the Valley, respectively. As the story goes, two ruling siblings, Kamran Dev and Marhan Dev, had divided the kingdom between themselves. Kamran ruled north Kashmir which came to be known after his name as Kamraz and Marhan ruled south Kashmir which got its name after him as Maraz. People in Kashmir still refer to north and south Kashmir as Kamraz and Maraz, respectively. During the Dogra rule (1846-1947) also, the Valley was administratively divided into two districts of Baramulla and Anantnag. The S
Mixing modern melody with prose and poetry, Kashmir’s new-age singers and musicians have resurrected folk songs in a different way. Creating their own platforms, this new breed of artists is reaching out to audiences using social media. While keeping alive art and culture of the place, they are finding success as well, reports
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Photographs of the Kashmiri singers whose numbers figured in the top 10, most-watched numbers on the internet in 2020. Graphics: Malik Kaisar
As the world is passing through apparently, the fourth industrial revolution, life is increasingly getting; virtual. While the process remains the same, systemic shifts now change the delivery. One of the hugely impacted spheres of activity that has undergone a Himalayan shift is the mass media.
Zoon Dabb balconies, roofs of bark and mud, Kasaba, Taranga, Pulharu, Putta Hurr – so perfectly were they all suited to our lives
The social life of Kashmir was well showcased in a feature programme of the erstwhile Radio Kashmir, called “Zoon Dabb”. This programme was broadcast for almost two decades and was so popular that hardly any Kashmiri missed it. I have heard many friends saying that whenever they faced any social problem they would wait till Zoon Dabb would solve it. It was a programme laced with humour, fun and laughter.
The name of the programme itself signified a cultural and architectural heritage of Kashmir, namely “Dabb”. Dabb used to be a popular fixture in old houses and was a mini balcony. Old women would sit on these dabbs and would talk to their neighbours even across the streets and discuss all sorts of social and household matters as telephones had not penetrated in our society till then. It was an architectural feature specific to Kashmir and had m