History often remembers kings and conquerors, but it is rare for common men—engineers, thinkers, and innovators—to be immortalized in chronicles. In Kashmir’s history, however, one such figure achieved eternal fame. His name was Suyya. Bor…
Khwaja Digar is one of Kashmir’s most enduring Sufi observances: a large-scale, community-centered congregational practice tied to the Naqshbandi order and anchored at the Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab shrine in Nowhatta/Khwaja Bazar, Srinagar. More than a …
Kashmir—often called Jannat-e-Benazir, the unmatched paradise on earth—looks like a dreamland. Golden saffron fields shine under the autumn sky, snow-covered peaks rise like silver crowns, and Dal Lake lies calm, reflecting the heavens. Chinar trees d…
Chapter One – The Call The soft light of late afternoon came through the dusty curtains, glowing over piles of books. The air smelled like ink, old paper, and something sharp—almost like rain that never arrived. Tom walked in through the f…
