Threads of Memory
Two master weavers from Kanihama have won a National Handloom Award for a painstaking Kani shawl, bringing renewed attention to one of Kashmir’s most intricate and endangered textile traditions. Amir Yaseen reports.
Two master weavers from Kanihama have won a National Handloom Award for a painstaking Kani shawl, bringing renewed attention to one of Kashmir’s most intricate and endangered textile traditions. Amir Yaseen reports.
Aqsa Hafiz is bringing Tilla and Aari embroidery into contemporary fashion, betting that Kashmir’s oldest craftsmanship can find new life with a younger generation. Tabish Khan reports.
From an estimated 4000 yatris in 1963 to hundreds of thousands in recent years, the Amarnath Yatra has traced Kashmir’s turbulent history while becoming one of India’s largest annual yatras. Mir Suneem reports.
Repeated landslides, cloudbursts, and floods are exposing the fragility of Jammu and Kashmir’s crucial highway links, with disruptions carrying consequences far beyond stranded traffic. Wajahat Iqbal Kashtwari reports.
Digital security must balance with due process, privacy, and lawful expression.
J&K’s railway expansion is moving from a single historic connection toward a wider transport network that could reshape trade, tourism and economic access across the region. Moien Darial writes.
Dr U Kaul’s memoir is more than a record of a medical career; it offers a lesson in service, accessibility and the trust that can bind a doctor to a community. Amir Yaseen writes.
A parliamentary panel has called for an integrated tourist-security network in Jammu and Kashmir, combining comprehensive CCTV coverage, central monitoring and regular vulnerability assessments to protect a growing visitor economy. Bisma Rafiq reports.
Auqib Nabi’s maiden India call-up caps a remarkable rise through domestic cricket and gives J&K its strongest chance yet of seeing one of its own walk out in India’s Test whites. Syed Sameer Ahmad Nazki reports.
Tunnel plans for Sadhna and Razdan Passes aim to end winter isolation in J&K’s remote border valleys. Bisma Rafiq reports.