Premchand Story Attempted Addressing Dumbfounded On Stage
SRINAGAR: In the ongoing Annual Drama Festival at Tagore Hall, Reshi Rashid’s
Wathh was appreciated for its simple storytelling by the members of Azad Dramatic Cultural Club from Repora Lar, Ganderbal on March 17, 2021. This was the third of the ten plays that diverse participating clubs will be performing this season.
Two main protagonists of the Premchand’s Gali Danandi in Kashmiri Play Wathh. The play was enacted in Tagore Hall on March 17, 2021. KL Image; Bilal Bahadur.
Wathh is a Kashmiri word that signifies a state of mind in which individuals are caught in a situation in which they are unable to speak out, connect and interact. They are dumb-founded literally. The state of
Khalid Bashir Ahmad
In January 2013, when the then Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages invited the then Minister for Culture to the foundation laying ceremony of the
Tehzeeb Mahal at Srinagar, the latter was like, “At Srinagar…Why not at Jammu?”
Governor being briefed about upcoming Tehzeeb Mahal Project in September 2013.
January 22, 2013: Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, lays the foundation stone of the Rs 72 crore
Tehzeeb Mahal near the Tourist Reception Centre in Srinagar. Five years and an expenditure of Rs 50 million later, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, heading a coalition government with the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), scraps the project and decides to offer the landholding to the JK Bank whose Corporate Headquarter is located close to the project site.
‘Our Mother Tongue Is Far More Than A Means Of Communication’
Asiya Hassan,
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KASHMIR LIFE (KL):
How can you be described and how this idea of getting mother-tongue into the digital world initiated?
ASIYA HASSAN (AS): My name is Asiya Hassan, born in Wuyan-Pampore. I have lived in Kashmir till my fifth standard of schooling. Later we moved to Malaysia, where I completed high school and graduated in Graphic Design. Currently, I am pursuing my masters in Kuala Lumpur.
The idea of setting up the page,
Kashmiri Dictionary on social media came out of the lack of online resources about our language. Many years back, when I was teaching my nephew (born and raised outside Kashmir), I searched the internet to find some useful resources that could be helpful in making him understand the language better. But the information about our language on the internet is quite limited so I could not find any good complete sources.
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.
Kashmir Wazwan
A Bollywood producer, currently in Srinagar, triggered a controversy by claiming that he has introduced veg-Wazwaan. He was trolled for naming a typical thali, a wazwan, otherwise a complete non-veg course. This led a learned man to attempt a brief introduction to the key Kashmir cuisine using medieval chronicles as the source
Bollywood director and right-wing activist, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri along with his team having food in Kashmir . Pic: Twitter
In terms of its culinary heritage, Kashmir can rightly say to be a
jannat for the food enthusiast.
Wazwan defines the Kashmiri love for food, and for those who love mutton, it is a feast that you need to relish. But, then like so many practices and customs in our society,