Auqib Javeed

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Zoya Mateen |Auqib Javeed

Shabir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Indian-administered Kashmir, has been selling pashmina shawls for more than 20 years. The intricately embroidered featherweight scarves are a favourite with his customers in Mussoorie, a hill town in the northern state of Uttarakhand, where he works. For his buyers, the shawls are a sign of luxury. For Dar, they are a metaphor for home; its traditional patterns layered with history and a mark of his Kashmiri identity.

2 weeks ago | thequint.com | Auqib Javeed

Nitin Jain, a 38-year software engineer from West Bengal, had promised to take his wife to Kashmir for that 'once-in-a-lifetime' trip. For 12 years of their marriage, he couldn't keep his promise. But, on 20 April, when the Jain family landed in Srinagar, that long wait was forgotten—and they rejoiced for what they described as their "most exciting holiday.""We had never seen such a beautiful place—every corner of the Valley is breathtaking," Jain recalled.

3 weeks ago | thequint.com | Auqib Javeed |Rakhi Bose

Talking to The Quint, locals expressed their concern over a section of media trying to spread communal narratives. Amid the cacophony of hate and polarisation on social media in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, a video of a Kashmiri man carrying an injured tourist on his back has gone viral. The man in the video is Sajad Ahmad Bhat, a shawl hawker from Pahalgam.

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy |Auqib Javeed

In August 2022, Abdul Rashid, a resident of Kashmir’s Anantnag district, learned that his “leader” was going to launch his own political party in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). He was excited, as were the hundreds of loyalists of this leader whose tenure as Chief Minister in the region (from 2005 to 2008) was often hailed as a “golden period” of governance.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Auqib Javeed

1 hour agoIn a new book, Pankaj Mishra twists Holocaust remembrance into a source of all the world’s evil. He couldn’t be more wrong. It is the misfortune of Jews that they so often find themselves the subject of obsessive fixation. By his own description, Pankaj Mishra is a lifelong obsessive. As a boy in …