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Festivals, melas, heritage, and the humans remixing Jammu’s identity — plus what’s on the calendar.
An RTI reply seen by The Tribune says no subsidy has been paid under J&K's film policy. Here is how the subsidy and the proposed Rs 500 crore fund are meant to work.
Natrang Jammu staged Balwant Thakur's 'Colours of Jammu & Kashmir' on October 25, with about two dozen young performers and ICCR Jammu's support.
Jammu's Natrang staged 'Mata Ki Kahani' at the Navratra Festival in Katra, with Jal Jeevan Mission backing a water-conservation episode.
In Baishti village, Chenani, Mohammad Farooq and his sons shape clay diyas and about 50 kinds of earthenware, with customers travelling to buy.
The three-day festival in Basohli (Oct 19-21) mixed a 21-km half marathon, a cartoon workshop and a Takri-script initiative for young people.
The UT-level inter-school Dogri singing and poetry competition ended in Jammu on October 21, with winners from Jammu Sanskriti School, Oriental Academy and more.
A Jammu theatre group's own full-length film, directed by Padma Shri Balwant Thakur, has now been screened more than 200 times across J&K.
The law recognises Dogri; a small 2026 survey suggests writing, not speaking, is where it is thinnest. Three practical asks.
A student's independent survey and a French tutor's classroom point to a generation that speaks less of its mother tongue and wants a global one.
The fourth Basohli Utsav runs October 19-21; riders leave Jammu's Tawi Riverfront at 9 am for Basohli.
The club behind the Dogri Ramayana says the language is fading at home, and plans a student procession of about 500 on October 24.
The zonal round began October 13 with music, dance, literary, fine arts and theatre events; winners go to the inter-zonal level at the University of Jammu.
A club in Dhalot, Samba, built in memory of three Kargil soldiers, is replacing a script heavy with Urdu and Persian words with a new Dogri one.
Natrang Jammu's cast of about 35 performs daily from October 12 at 4 pm and 6 pm during the Katra Navratra Festival. Ticket price and run end date are not announced.
Qalamkaar - The Writers' Group released the Dogri collection on 4 October, with a research paper and a book review at the launch.
After 12 Dogri films were honoured in Jammu, the association has asked for a second festival here, theatre space, subsidies and industry status.
The fifth edition wrapped on 29 September with about 3,000 visitors, 17 award categories and a call for a lasting film platform in Jammu.
Seven cartoonists — four from outside J&K — will draw live, run workshops and hang an open-air exhibition at Basohli Utsav from October 19 to 21.
India’s national academy of letters holds a one-day symposium on Dogri song at the Gian Chand Seminar Hall. What is confirmed, and what is not.
'Purvabhyaas', a Hindi comedy by Om Prakash directed by Neeraj Kant, took Natrang's Sunday Theatre slot on 20 September — with a seven-actor cast.
Jammu district is getting a Mata Lalleshwari Cultural-cum-Heritage Centre — archives, translation work, Kashmir Shaivism fellowships and youth art programming.
Jammu Film Festival is entering its fifth edition. The next test is whether one strong September weekend can become a year-round audience for local cinema.
The academy's Hindi Diwas Pakhwada began with a paper on Hindi in the age of AI, four writers felicitated — and five women undergraduates reading their own poems.
The Jammu Film Festival's 5th edition runs 28–29 September, with a new ₹1 lakh award for Best Local Production. The curtain-raiser is free and open, this Thursday.
J&K's first international film festival has wrapped at SKICC with its full awards list out. A self-financed Kashmiri short beat the regional field.
Gole Market's 18th Ganesh Mahotsav runs September 14–25 with daily Vedic rituals, a September 24 Purnahuti and a Shobha Yatra to the Chenab at Akhnoor.
The Chhari Mubarak leaves Gatha's Vasuki Nag temple for Kailash Kund on 8 September. The administration's advisory bars under-14s and over-70s — the full story.
The Information Department's Jammu screenings on 8 September ended with a roll-call of Dogri cinema and an evening of Dogri music. The festival runs to 10 September.
On his 126th birth anniversary, the story of the Smailpur village boy who became a Sahitya Akademi-winning pioneer and Dogri's first ghazal writer.
Kashmir's first international film festival opened with a CM's speech, a single-window film policy and 130-plus films from 80 countries. Here's what it opens up for young Jammu residents — and what still has to follow.
J&K's first international film festival has locked in its jury days before opening in Jammu — director Sriram Raghavan joins the panel, while 'Sholay' director Ramesh Sippy and Vidhu Vinod Chopra arrive as special guests.
A two-day folk festival at the Sunaseri meadow in Ramban closed with Pahari music and rural sport, backed by Rs 2.17 crore in new eco-tourism infrastructure and a promise to make it an annual fixture.
Natrang's latest production puts three characters at a lamp post trading small talk that turns out to be about freedom, hollow politics and what modernisation costs a society's 'human essence.'
A Kathua town gave Indian art its most electric colour — and a GI tag in 2023. Its masterpieces now hang in New York, London and Zurich. What would it take to bring the value home?
The Jammu Municipal Corporation has installed Dogri signboards in the Takri script at the airport, the railway station, the bus stand and two dozen chowks.
J&K's first international film festival now has a programme: 135 films from 41 countries, nine cash awards, a jury led by Santosh Sivan and Resul Pookutty — and one Jammu screen.
JMC has broken ground on modernising the 150-year-old Diwan Mandir auditorium in Kacchi Chhawani — new seating, AC, fire safety and audio, funded entirely from the corporation's own budget.
Sahitya Akademi and JKAACL spent two days at the Writers Club mapping Dogri drama decade by decade — and quietly showed young Dogri speakers where the doors actually are.
A solo performance about a young woman who fails her exams twice, nearly gives up, and finishes second division anyway — Natrang's newest Sunday Theatre offering, staged this week in Jammu.
The restored Hindi classic has one listed Jammu screening today at Movietime Cinemas, with an 8K picture restoration and remastered Dolby 5.1 sound.