Yikvot aims to revive Kashmiri language among youth through innovative platform
- Seerat Hafiz started Yikvot, a Kashmiri reading club and literary platform, in 2023, and its name means together.
- Kashmiri was taken out of schools in 1953 to reduce the load on students, and only came back in 2001.
- She began with reading sessions, and found that Tolstoy and Dostoevsky had been translated into Kashmiri long ago.
- Young readers who ignored Kashmiri books turned up for Dostoevsky in Kashmiri, and stayed.
Source: scroll.in
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