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Kashmiri Walnut Wood Carving and How to Buy a Genuine Piece
Walk down the lanes behind Zaina Kadal in old Srinagar on a weekday morning and you will hear it before you see it: the soft...
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Walk down the lanes behind Zaina Kadal in old Srinagar on a weekday morning and you will hear it before you see it: the soft...
Culture
The first winter evening I spent with a family in Srinagar, the power went out just after sunset. Nobody seemed bothered.
Culture
The Kashmiri shawl arrived in Europe as a luxury object in the late eighteenth century, carried west by the officers of the...
Culture
Kashmiri papier-mache is known locally as kar-i-kalamdani, which translates roughly as the work of the pen case, a reference to...
Culture
The Mughal relationship with Kashmir began in earnest with Emperor Akbar, who added the valley to the empire in 1586.
Culture
Kashmir has produced embroidery of significant sophistication for at least five hundred years.