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Festivals, melas, heritage, and the humans remixing Jammu’s identity — plus what’s on the calendar.
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.
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A J&K Cinema Guild delegation asked the Chief Minister to revive the film policy this week. Here is what the policy actually offers a local filmmaker.
The International Film Festival of J&K's Emerging Filmmakers Competition closes on August 26. Here's who can enter, the film spec, and how to submit.
Natrang's Sunday Theatre staged the late Bollywood screenwriter Sagar Sarhadi's play in Jammu — two decades after he asked to see his work on its stage.
Dogri has more official recognition than at any point in independent India — and is quietly vanishing from classrooms, offices and conversations with children. How Jammu's language got here, and what would actually reverse it.
The J&K government keeps approving crore-plus heritage restorations, one site at a time. Rajouri's historic stepwell is the latest — and Jammu district's own baolis and pilgrim-route relics aren't on that list yet.
DIPR has opened a short-film competition for J&K filmmakers aged 18–39 ahead of September's IFFJK. Five minutes, one theme, a domicile certificate and 19 days.
J&K's first-ever international film festival runs September 7–10, with 875 films from around 50 countries, masterclasses and a J&K Select strand — and Jammu is a host city.
No ticket, no algorithm — just a live play every Sunday. Natrang's Sunday Theatre has kept the curtain up in Jammu for 22 years, and it's still one of the city's best free evenings.
KC International School in Jammu hosted the release of a four-track devotional album, 'Suroon Ki Bhakti', with a Padma Shri awardee as chief guest.
Shakti Udghosh Foundation's women riders flagged off 'Ride with Pride 3.0' this weekend — the group's third major expedition after a 2,000 km tribute ride to Rezang La and an anti-drug ride along the LoC.
Three young founders turned an evening of air-dry clay and mirror art into कलाKARI's debut workshop — and a first step toward the creative community they set out to build in Jammu.
SMVDU cadet Kartik completed the NCC Siachen Base Camp trekking expedition — ice craft, glacier movement and the war memorial. It's also a window into what NCC offers Jammu students.
Nightly Aarti, a light-and-sound show and fresh boating rides have turned Jammu's Tawi ghats into the city's buzziest evening spot this summer.
Every July, Jammu's Bhagwati Nagar base camp becomes the launchpad for thousands of Amarnath pilgrims — and a season of volunteering, langars and livelihoods for the city's youth.
The historic Mubarak Mandi palace has reopened part of its complex as 'Royal Legacy' — a heritage hub with a 12D theatre, library, gaming zone and Dogra food.
On International Yoga Day, parks, stadiums and rooftops across Jammu fill with mats at dawn. This year’s theme puts the focus on ageing well — and the city’s youth are turning up anyway.
A twenty-day cultural caravan organised by JKAACL and the North Zone Cultural Centre swept through Jammu and Ramban this June, mixing Manipuri folk, Punjabi bhangra and even visiting Sri Lankan artists. Here is why it matters more than its programme suggests.
The smartest air-conditioned escape from a Jammu June is not a mall — it is the Dogra Art Museum and the city’s heritage galleries. A young person’s guide to looking at old things in the heat.
A festival of traditional folk performances brought Kud, Geetru and Dogri Bhaakh back into the open near Jammu — proof that the region’s oldest sounds still pull a crowd.
The KC International Youth Conclave 2026 has wrapped in Jammu, putting school students in the chairs of diplomats, legislators and journalists. It is a small event with an outsized message about where the city’s young are looking.
An International Shopping Festival at Bahu Plaza and a Thailand International Exhibition have turned Jammu’s retail heart into a passport-free trip abroad — a small but telling sign of the city’s rising consumer appetite.
Cultural evenings, folk troupes and Sufi voices keep Jammu’s stages busy through the heat. A look at the institutions and artists carrying the Dogra soundscape forward.
Rare manuscripts, antique utensils and centuries-old paintings turn up at the city’s exhibition halls more often than you think. A guide to seeing Jammu’s past up close.
Inside Mubarak Mandi’s restored Pink Hall sits one of north India’s great miniature collections. A guide to the Dogra Art Museum — and the heritage circuit of galleries around it.