On two sides of the Pir Panchal mountains in Budgam live a community that shares ethos, language and heritage. For centuries, they have been marrying their wards and reaching each other by foot using the same route that traders and conquerors used in early medieval Kashmir.
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Hashim and Maisar, both residents of Hassanabad locality of the city, learnt the craft from their father Shabir Hussain Khan who has been into the craft for the last 50 years.
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The government support is helping a Kashmiri artisan named Muhammad Yousuf Bhat to keep the centuries-old Pulhoor (traditional sleepers) alive in the valley.