Shahnaz Husain glmahajan@gmail.com With an aromatic smell in the air, we just know that the festive season is here It is the season of great enthusiasm, rituals & customs and faith while celebrating Goddess Durga with faith, fun, songs,...
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Art & Culture
Verender Bangroo The exterior of a Ladakhi home may be newly built, often with traditional carvings, but the interior is striking. Every household preserves its material culture and places these objects prominently in showcases, taking quiet pride in the association....
Did Its Keepers Know What They Were Preserving? Iqbal Ahmad Iqbal61@yahoo.co.in Without any doubt, one should take care of one's spoken dialect, which, for centuries, has been serving as the medium of communication for the common people, although it has...
The House of Heritage, Sopore, Kashmir Saleem Beg Meeras Mahal, meaning "The House of Heritage"-the museum at Sopore reflects the lived history and everyday life of the people of Kashmir.The museum has preserved the memories, traditions, and cultural practices of...
Zorawar Singh Jamwal zorawarjamwal123@gmail.com Every year, lakhs of pilgrims stream through Jammu on their way to the most revered cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi Ji. They land at the airport, check into a hotel for a night, catch the...
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Cultural Resilience, Civilizational Memory, and Community Heritage Preservation Anil Paba pabaanil@gmail.com The Living Heritage of the Roof of the World The rugged terrain of Ladakh conceals numerous cultural treasures that testify to the resilience and ingenuity of human civilization. For...
Private Museums Breathing Life into J&K's Heritage Dr Mrinalini Atrey atreymrinalini@gmail.com Imagine stepping into a grand palace where the walls whisper royal secrets, or into a modest riverside home where every day utensils tell stories of generations past. In...
M Saleem Beg saleembeg@gmail.com Museums are repositories of memory-places where history can be encountered through objects of stone, metal, cloth, paper and bone. The S.P.S. Museum in Srinagar, established in 1898, is one such repository. Its galleries bring together fragments...
Vinod Kumar Jammu & Kashmir is a land where every mountain, temple, fort, shrine, baoli, cave, and village pathway narrates a story of centuries-old civilization. From the magnificent temple architecture of Jammu and the Buddhist heritage of Ladakh to the...
When the Body Becomes a Temple: The Ramnami Samaj's Century-Old Rebellion Now Inspires Kolkata's Durga Puja Denied entry into temples, they did not argue — they carried Ram on their skin instead. TWF-IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh traces how Chhattisgarh's Ramnami Samaj,...
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