Kitaab Ghar (Home of Books) at the Lal Chowk Srinagar was once a popular hangout of Kashmiri language writers and litterateurs. With half shutter up, this bookshop continues to sell books on Kashmiri ...

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, ...

Kashmiri, or Koshur, is officially spoken by approximately 7 million Kashmiris, primarily in the Kashmir Valley and the Chenab Valley in Jammu. The language is mainly written in Perso-Arabic script, ...