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The literary world of Indian-administered Kashmir is mourning the death of a beloved poet and champion of the Kashmiri language, which he is largely credited with rescuing from obscurity. Abdur Rehman ...

When 22-year-old Touqeer Ashraf arrived in Srinagar for his education, he was struck by the way people spoke. “Not only young people, I saw even the elderly talking to the young in Urdu,” said Ashraf, ...

Kashmiri, or Koshur, is officially spoken by approximately 7 million Kashmiris, primarily in the Kashmir Valley and the Chenab Valley in Jammu. The language is mainly written in Perso-Arabic script, ...

On writing a contemporary novel in Kashmiri, a language that middle-class native speakers have largely abandoned for Urdu and English Many experiences have shaped the literary sensibility of the ...

Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his mother tongue a distinct literary identity. By Sameer Yasir NEW DELHI — Rehman ...

For Mehdi Khawaja, 26, what started as an interest as a reader of the work of the first Kashmiri novelist, Akhtar Mohiuddin, has given shape to his ambition to translate Kashmiri language writers into ...

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Mubashir Ahmad Shah is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar, 2025, for his story collection written in Kashmiri Teacher Mubashir Ahmad Shah (48), who writes under the pen name Izhar ...