The writer, whose award-winning translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin’s Jahanmuk Panun Panun Naar (1975) will be published next ...

'This demand would create a rift between the Hindus and Muslims in the Kashmir region. It is a surprise that AIKS is asking for Devanagari script and not Sharda script.' AFTER the Jammu and Kashmir ...

KASHMIRI Pandit scholars, teachers, academicians and thinkers in the Kashmir valley used Sarada or Sharda for centuries. A rich language developed from the Brahmi script during the second half of the ...

For centuries, the Kashmiri language has survived only through oral traditions; by 2013, those who could write the script fell to just 5%. This year, two technological giants, Microsoft and Google, ...

SRINAGAR: The Centre's move to make Devnagari the script of Kashmiri language has irked separatists and mainstream politicians alike in Kashmir. SRINAGAR: The Centre''s move to make Devnagari the ...

Hoping to succeed where the erstwhile UPA government failed, the BJP-led Union government has proposed the formation of a national council to prevent the Kashmiri language and its original script – ...

Kitaab Ghar (Home of Books) at the Lal Chowk Srinagar Kitaab Ghar (Home of Books) at the Lal Chowk Srinagar was once a popular hangout of Kashmiri language writers and litterateurs. With half shutter ...

SRINAGAR: The first-ever exhibition dedicated to Sharda, an ancient script that developed in Kashmir and was used primarily by Kashmiri Pandits, was organised at Chinar Book Festival in Srinagar.The ...

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, ...