Ask a young person in the Valley today what the Kashmiri word for “glacier” is, and you will likely get a puzzled look. The English term comes easily – glacier – learnt from textbooks and diagrams.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Professor Shafi Shauq, a 75-year-old poet, linguist and translator from Kashmir who was nominated for the Padma Shri Award, on Monday (January 26, 2026) said Kashmiri language is that of workers and ...

Over 80% of the lecturer posts sanctioned for teaching Kashmiri language in the schools of the valley are lying vacant even years after the native language was introduced as a subject in the schools ...

Only 5 of 27 sanctioned higher secondary lecturer posts are filled, with several districts reporting no appointed teachers at all. Even with postgraduates and PhD holders in Kashmiri available, ...

Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his mother tongue a distinct literary identity. By Sameer Yasir NEW DELHI — Rehman ...

On a quiet summer afternoon in 2020, a calendar at a mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir caught Muneer Ahmad Dar's attention. It featured a poem written in Kashmiri, the language spoken in the ...

I first noticed it in words. Some Kashmiri words, ones you do not hear in daily conversation, came easily to me, even though I hardly spoke the language outside my home. I wondered where this ...