Book Reading Sessions; a lost legacy of Kashmiri culture

” In Kashmir, we have this legacy of storytelling and book reading sessions to our children and adults alike, which influenced the psyche of our ancestors to a great deal. It goes like 40 to 50 people will summon at someone’s house and will listen to the “reader” who would read out the fictional books with a tinge of singing-not unlike recitation- in his voice. In this issue, we talked to Assadullah Bhat, who still organizes such reading sessions at his friends’ or relatives’ places on his own “

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