Afreen Ashraf
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Kashmir’s Drying Lifeline (opens the original)
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From Srinagar’s bylanes to Kulgam’s orchards, Kashmir’s water sources are vanishing. Taps, springs, canals, lakes and glaciers are all showing that scarcity is deepening, reports Afreen Ashraf “Hye toofaan, hye toofaan; treshi dadi mearikh eas Musalmaan“, (what a turmoil: look, we Muslims are being killed by thirst). This slogan echoed through the kochas of Srinagar a few months ago as women took to the lanes to protest the water shortage in their neighbourhood. The crisis has slowly become part
Kashmir: The Film Festival (opens the original)
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Kashmir hosted a film festival, drawing global filmmakers to Srinagar, Gulmarg and Jammu, even as some homegrown artists questioned whether the revival included them, reports Afreen Ashraf For four days, last week, the Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) became a place worth noticing. Visitors turned an otherwise usual gathering into a reminder that something unusual is happening in Kashmir. Srinagar started looking different with buntings and fascinating billboards. Along the
Kashmirâs Digital Storytelling (opens the original)
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Digital storytellers, bloggers, vloggers, and food creators are reshaping outside perceptions of Kashmir, moving from personal encounters to debates over consent and privacy, reports Afreen Ashraf In 2013, a foreign visitor named Fatima walked into a small aari embroidery shop in Soura, Srinagar, with a camera. She was recording for her Facebook page. Inside, she met Mohammad Maqbool, an elderly craftsman sitting with his workers. She spent time talking to him, learning about his craft. But she
Kashmir: Feasting Fresh Catch (opens the original)
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A family-run trout farm in South Kashmir lets visitors catch, clean and grill their own rainbow trout, turning a fisheries venture into a rural tourism success story, reports Afreen Ashraf The drive to Akad village in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district runs alongside the Lidder River. The water crashes against rocks for much of the way. The road winds through lush, mountain-framed valleys. Just before Akad Park, the scenery changes character. The river and mountains remain. But the eye is now dra
Kashmirâs Empty Road (opens the original)
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Once thronged by tourists, Apple Valley’s shops and orchards stand quiet after route restrictions, leaving traders, farmers and jobless graduates waiting for visitors to return, reports Afreen Ashraf Seated inside one of his stalls at the Government Tourist Resort in Cheeniwari, Mohammad Qasim watches the road leading towards Pahalgam, hoping the next vehicle will pull over. A 65-year-old retired government school teacher, Qasim never expected to enter the world of business. But unemployment ca
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