Valley Vignette: For the love of Wazwan

Wazwan is a cuisine denoting cultural pride of Kashmir, which people proudly identify with Last week, Bollywood director Vivek Agnihotri, who was in Kashmir for the shooting of his film, took to micro-blogging site Twitter “to bring about a change” in a traditional Kashmiri cuisine “Wazwan” from non-vegetarian to vegetarian food. “Nobody knows how to make a vegetarian Wazwan in Kashmir. But I am here to bring about change. #TheKashmirFiles.(sic),” Aghnihotri tweeted while sharing a picture of having a vegetarian thali at a Srinagar hotel with a lookalike “mutton kebab”…

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No let-up in cold wave across Kashmir valley, Condition to continue till Jan 21

Srinagar records minus 7.6 degrees C temperature Traffic to ply from Sgr-Jmu today  Wet spell likely between Jan 22-25: MeT As Kashmir continues to reel under intense cold wave, it is for the first time in the last almost three decades that summer capital Srinagar recorded minimum temperatures below minus 7 degrees Celsius during five consecutive nights. According to the data of the Meteorological Department, last time the temperature had plummeted to as low as minus 7 degrees for several days was in January 1991. While Srinagar on Saturday night…

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