Fashion
Kashmiri Bridal Wear and What a Bride Traditionally Wears
You have a Kashmiri wedding coming up, maybe your own, maybe a cousin's, and every shop in Srinagar seems to be selling the...
Fashion and food writer, page 2 of 8
Zara writes about food, fashion and the material culture of the Kashmir Valley. She approaches every subject from the perspective of craft: how things are made, who makes them, and what they mean.
Fashion
You have a Kashmiri wedding coming up, maybe your own, maybe a cousin's, and every shop in Srinagar seems to be selling the...
Food & Cuisine
Most rogan josh recipes online are thick with onions, tomatoes and cream, and they taste nothing like the deep red, glossy...
Fashion
You are holding a pheran in a Srinagar shop, the shopkeeper says the chain-stitch flowers on the neckline are all done by hand,...
Fashion
You have seen them in wedding photos from Srinagar and Jammu: two gold pendants hanging from long threads looped through the...
Culture
You have two free mornings in Srinagar, a houseboat host who keeps saying you must see Hazratbal, and no idea whether you are...
Entertainment
On the last nights of Ramzan in my grandmother's mohalla in Srinagar, the women would gather in a courtyard after the evening...