Briefing April 30-May 6, 2023

Briefing April 30-May 6, 2023

[ad_1] POONCH Remains of the ill-fated army truck that went up in flames after suspected militants attacked it in Bhata Dhurian area in Mendhar (Poonch) on April 20, 2023. Six soldiers were killed and one survived injured. Jammu and Kashmir Police have detained six persons after questioning nearly 200 people in Poonch following April 22,…

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Jashn e Ramzan: The Story Behind The Camera

Jashn e Ramzan: The Story Behind The Camera

[ad_1] Within a few months after moving out of the classroom, a young reporter in TheNewsCaravan landed in a team that shot an infotainment series for Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting. Unprecedented, the almost all-women initiative was a huge success. Babra Wani connects dots and anecdotes to offer the behind-the-camera story. I was working…

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Kashmir’s Disappearing Mesaharati

Kashmir’s Disappearing Mesaharati

[ad_1] The digitized twenty-first century has bestowed almost everything upon the cell phone to the extent that it has replaced more than 50 things. While the Ramzan drummers were competing with the mosque loudspeakers, the mobile phone alarms have led to their decline in Kashmir villages and towns, reports Raashid Andrabi Asked what he misses…

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Addressing A Deficit

[ad_1] Architect Dr Sameer Hamdani’s book on sectarian reconciliation in Kashmir is a Himalayan contribution in offering a narrative purged from bias and slants, writes Raashid Maqbool Hakim Sameer Hamdani’s book on Kashmir’s sectarian reconcilation being launched in Srinagar in March 2023. KL Image Fayaz Ahmad Najar Generations in Kashmir have grown up on folklore…

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‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand the Perils of Sectarianism’

[ad_1] With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th –18th Century) filled a huge void that in Kashmir’s architectural history. Design Director at the INTACH Kashmir, his latest…

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Briefing January 22-28, 2023

Briefing January 22-28, 2023

[ad_1] RAJOURI Investigations into the twin attacks in Rajouri’s Upper Dangri village in which seven persons were killed have been taken over by the federal investigator, NIA. A day after Home Minister Amit Shah visited the region. Owing to bad weather, however, he could not fly to the distant mountainous area and spoke to the…

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