He carries a bundle of certificates along with him. He has won over 30 state level competitions. He is young and dynamic. He believes he can do wonders for the state provided he is laced with an ‘International Cycle’.

While carrying a bag full of certificates with him he flips through pages of his portfolio file to show what laurels he has brought to the state in cycling. Muhammad Akbar Khan is proud to say that he is the only cyclists from Kashmir valley who has won over 30 gold...

As the holy month of Ramadhan is in its initial stage, the trend of wearing a Purdah (veil) can be seen growing among women in Kashmir especially among college girls and working women, however in a more modern and happening way. Rising number of women in the valley are adopting 'Purdah' purely out of choice with slight add-ons.

Clad in bright red coloured headscarf, donning a floral designer Pakistani Kurta over chic Benetton jeans, Osyla Majid (24) is one among the young lot of Kashmiri...

As the sun begins to set, Kashmiri shopkeepers usually pull down their shutters and leave for their homes. But this market has set up a different example; the daily commercial activities start after the Sunset.Situated in the famed Dal Lake, everyday thousands of tourists throng to this market to purchase goods. The market houses over two hundred shops and showrooms encompassed with shops selling; pashmina shawls, paper machie products, carpets and chain stitch rugs, and even gold...

Octogenarian Ghulam Mohammad Sofi is distraught. He is inconsolable most of the times. A resident of Khanyar, he says he lost his companion in the Monday inferno that turned the ‘Dastgeer Sahib’ shrine in Old City into ruins.

Sofi, 85, says he ‘lost a companion whom he met five times a day’. For him this loss is simply irreparable. In the wee hours of Monday when the news of the 245-year-old shrine being gutted in a devastating fire spread he helplessly kept watching as operation to...