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Here are Some Childhood Memories Of Growing Up in Kashmir

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Article by Manan Mushtaq Hakak Being born in Kashmir and asked to count best childhood memories may make you melancholic for a while because things like firing, curfew and crackdown strikes your mind but admist all this grimness and horror there used to be some best moments too which we still cherish and possess as our […]

Meet Dr Mohammed Maqbool Mir: An Angel To Many Differently Abled Children

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Sidra Nazir from Gyawun talks to Dr Mohammed Maqbool Mir, former Professor and HoD ENT, GMC Srinagar, and founder of Voluntary Medicare Society which is working to decrease the stigma associated with mentally and physically challenged individuals.  Tell us about yourself I, Dr Mohammed Maqbool Mir am the third child of seven, grew up in the typical […]

Meet Meral Kathwari: Kashmiri-American Who Took Over Her Father’s Business Just at the Age of 20

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Interview done by Ufaq Fatima from Gyawun Tell us about yourself My name is Meral Kathwari. I am a 22 year old Kashmiri-American. I was born in Kashmir but raised in Italy and the United States. Now I currently live in between New York and Kashmir. I’ve completed my Bachelors in Mass Communications: Journalism with […]

Let’s Raise a Cup of Kahwah to These Incredible Kashmiri Women

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To the morally strong, mentally empowered, kind, naturally compassionate, empathetic, happy in their skin and to those women specially who don’t find men as the reference to validate their position but consider them as a important aspect that is equally important in their own special way for successful society. Hence, treating them too with their […]

This 22-year-Old Kashmiri Co-Founded a 9 Crore Business

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Interview done by Sidra Nazir from Gyawun.com Tell us about yourself I am Ruhan Madni Naqash, hailing from Barzulla Srinagar. I’m 22 years old and I did my schooling (including high school) from Burn Hall and passed out in 2012. I wanted to be a writer, but because of the various parental, peer and societal […]

Meet Badrunissa Bhat: Sufi Artist From Kashmir

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Tell us about yourself? I am Badrunissa Bhat and I’m 20 years old. I have completed my schooling from Sultan ul Arifeen Wakf Public School till 10th standard and rest of the studies from Green Valley Educational Institute. As a person I have keen interest in Literature, Art, Sufi Music, Sufi Literature, etc. My family […]

Meet Faizan Hasan Khan: A Boy From Downtown Who Started NGO at the Age of 16

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Tell us about yourself I am Faizan Hasan Khan, 26, from Downtown Srinagar. I am a Post Graduate in Civil Engineering. Although I studied engineering but my passion is elsewhere. From a very young age I aspired to help needy. As everyone is aware of the troubled times Kashmir has gone through and as a […]

Meet Sabreena Sidiqi: Social Worker Who Works In The Backdrop Of Landmines & Cross Border Shelling

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Sidra Nazir from Gyawun.com talks to Sabreena Sidiqi, a Kashmiri social worker whose job involves working on LOC and in areas which are under security radar. Tell us about yourself To begin with my story, as you call it, I am Sabreena Sidiqi. I hail from Srinagar. I have done schooling from Presentation Convent School. After that […]

Meet This Kashmiri Girl Ufra Mir: First from South Asia and Youngest Peace Psychologist in the World

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Tell us about yourself. I am from a very simple middle-class family, born and brought up in downtown Khanyar (Srinagar) right when Tehreek was at its peak. My father moved to Leh for business after incurring huge losses due to daily blasts in the Budshah Chowk. I ended up doing my schooling till 10th grade […]

Here are the Things that also Happened in Kashmir in 2016 which You Probably Dont Know

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1. Burhaan Kinu, a Kashmiri photojournalist working with Hindustan Times was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award in the Photojournalism category. 2.  Zufa Iqbal won the prestigious Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE award for inventing ‘Namda Rolling Machine’. 3. Jumsheed Hussain a Kashmiri, Executive Director, Credit and Risk Management at Qatar Development Bank was awarded the […]