![]() ![]() “The video was shared by more than 40,000 people,” said Dar. Four or five decades ago, the mills were the main source of high-quality cooking oil in Kashmir. In 2021, Muneer Ahmad Dar, a school teacher from Kashmir’s Budgam district, posted a series of videos on the ox-driven mills of Kashmir and their process of oil extraction. Like Ashraf, a handful of language enthusiasts is using social media to draw the younger generation towards Kashmiri language and culture and to connect them to their roots. I want to introduce people to that pure Kashmiri.” “There are Kashmiri words used by our older generation which our generation doesn’t understand. “The Kashmiri we speak is not pure but a mixture,” he said. “Kashmiris based outside India and even non-Kashmiris reach out to me.”įor Ashraf, the emphasis is on introducing an older, “purer” form of Kashmiri to the new generation. “The response is extremely good,” said Ashraf. ![]() On Instagram, ‘Keashur Praw’ has more than 1 lakh subscribers. His YouTube channel has more than 16,000 subscribers with a collective viewership of all his videos touching nearly 2 million views. Then, the works of other stalwarts of Kashmiri literature and mysticism like Mahmood Gami, Rasul Mir, Lal Ded and Mehjoor followed. They are slickly shot, usually not longer than 30 seconds, overlaid with Ashraf’s voice and some background music.Īshraf started with the poetry of Kashmir’s 14th century Sufi mystic, Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani. In early 2021, he started a YouTube channel Keashur Praw, the shimmering light of Kashmiri, which posts short videos of Kashmiri poetry. To draw more people to the language, Ashraf turned to the pioneers of Kashmiri literature. This lack of respect for his native language bothered Ashraf. “But in the city, I saw people who speak in the language being derisively called ‘gaamik’ ,” said Ashraf, who has been living in Srinagar since last year. In his native village of Goosu Pulwama, in Pulwama district, the medium of conversation was Kashmiri. ![]() “Not only young people, I saw even the elderly talking to the young in Urdu,” said Ashraf, a postgraduate student of geology at the University of Kashmir. When 22-year-old Touqeer Ashraf arrived in Srinagar for his education, he was struck by the way people spoke. Mount Everest: As mass mountaineering peaks, it is time to reckon with its environmental impacts.So how did Erdogan win a fifth term in office? Wrestlers protest shows how Indian law is a tool of oppression rather than an instrument of justice.Modi’s new parliament could see Hindi belt gain, South lose power at the Centre.Watch: Dog learns to play peek-a-boo with human.Watch: Cast of the ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ musical performs in New York’s Times Square.Comeback Super Kings: Reactions to CSK winning fourth IPL title after excellent win against KKR.Why a Tamil sceptre handed over by Mountbatten lies at the heart of Modi’s new Parliament.IPL 2023 Final, GT vs CSK as it happened: Chennai Super Kings clinch fifth title after thriller.IPL 2023: As Chennai Super Kings clinch record-equalling fifth title, a look at the list of winners. ![]() Reading list for young readers: The 12 books shortlisted for the 2023 Neev Book Awards.Readers’ comments: Freedom to choose religion is constitutional, but does not include missionaries. ![]()
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