When she saw her son’s face she fell unconscious, unable to bear looking at him. With her son’s face etched into the memory, she now wants him to visit her once, in her dream. “I want to sleep just to see him,” she said. “Just once!” The Kashmir Walla's senior reporter, Gafira Qadir, reads the...

A sonorous chorus of male devotees fills the air at dawn in many parts of Kashmir. After the conclusion of the fajr prayers at dawn, devotees have been chanting the Awradh-e-Fateh in Kashmir’s mosques since the fourteenth century. The Awradh is an anthology of Quranic verses and the centrality...