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Srinagarâs Fish Market (opens the original)
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Chattabal’s century-old fish market thrives on tradition and trade, yet vendors remain without a permanent home despite decades of promises and pending land transfers, Babra Wani reports Every morning, as prayers end in Srinagar’s mosques, Hilal and Shakeel set out for work. Both head towards Dal Lake. Hilal fishes its waters. Shakeel, a vendor at Chattabal fish market, buys his catch to sell from a cart. Their routine never changes through the year. For Chattabal, it has become the market’s pul
Translating Kashmir (opens the original)
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As Kashmiri literature crosses linguistic boundaries, translators confront questions of fidelity, cultural loss, readership and preservation, reports Babra Wani For centuries, Kashmir’s literary inheritance has travelled beyond the language in which it was written through translators who have tried to carry its history, poetry, stories and worldview into other linguistic worlds. Perhaps the most consequential example is the Rajatarangini, Kalhana’s 12th-century chronicle of Kashmir’s kings. Haid
Kashmir: The Fateh Kadal Karkahanas (opens the original)
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In a century-old Fateh Kadal kaarkhana on the Jhelum’s banks, ageing woodcarvers keep a fading Kashmiri craft alive, even as their children walk away from it, reports Babra Wani Inside the alleys of the Fateh Kadal in Srinagar’s Shehr-e-Khas, just near the old footbridge, on the left side of the road, lies an old and small wooden door. Right next to it is a bigger wooden door, which seemingly is locked. The iron lock that guards it is an old one too. On the wall between the two doors is a Persia
Can a Little Girlâs Gaze Make Us Rethink What It Means to Grow Up? (opens the original)
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A chance encounter with a little girl makes an adult revisit childhood memories, forgive old hurts, and realise adulthood is far less perfect than it appears. There are moments in life that last only a few seconds, yet somehow manage to take us years backwards. They arrive without warning, disguised as ordinary moments, and then suddenly something inside us shifts. A face, a smile, a familiar gesture, and we are no longer where we were. We are children again, looking at the world with the same c
Translating Kashmir’s Literature (opens the original)
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Kashmiri writers, translators and institutions discuss with Babra Wani why translation matters for a language with limited global reach, and the losses, gains and challenges of the craft Hafsa, an avid reader, believes the translation is a blessing in disguise. “We were able to read all the amazing Persian poets through the translation of their works and that is amazing,” she said. “I really think that translating one language to another helps and it makes that language, the work, more accessibl
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