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Nipa Charagi

National Editor, Mint Lounge

Nipa Charagi is a national editor at Mint Lounge desk, who occasionally writes on topics like food and art.

ARTICLES BY NIPA CHARAGI

Ghanta Ghar at Lal Chowk, which was named after Moscow’s Red Square in the 1940s. (iStockphoto)

Sameer Hamdani's ‘City of Kashmir’: How Srinagar lost its cosmopolitan identity

6 min read . 13 Dec 2025

(left) 'Jamdani phiran' from House of Moxa; and linen 'phiran' from Roza Pret.

How to wear the Kashmiri phiran in summer

6 min read . 19 Apr 2025

Veer Munshi's installation 'Qayaam-gah' (resting place), which replicates a Kashmiri Sufi shrine with its lattice work; on the wall is his artwork 'Meeraas'. (Courtesy Veer Munshi and Aicon Gallery)

Artist Veer Munshi's process of healing

6 min read . 08 Feb 2025

M.K. Raina's memoir 'Before I Forget' is set in the backdrop of an evolving post-independence India. (Penguin Random House India, 409 pages, ₹999)

Theatre has always been a genre of resistance, says M.K. Raina

7 min read . 13 May 2024

(left) Kashmiri-style turnip; and kohlrabi with lotus stem, both cooked using the same recipe. (Photographs by Nipa Charagi)

Keep it simple, Kashmiri ‘haakh’ style

4 min read . 15 Feb 2024

Abandoned houses in Nadimarg village in Kashmir, where 24 Kashmiri Pandits were shot dead in March 2003. (Getty Images)

‘Camp memories’ from Jammu in the 1990s

7 min read . 11 Jan 2024

A Kashmiri 'thali' with minced meat 'kofta' (top right). (Courtesy Sanjay Raina/Instagram)

Don't want to chop onion and tomatoes? Make these Kashmiri mutton ‘koftas’

3 min read . 04 Sept 2023

Mirza Ghalib's 'haveli' in Old Delhi is a heritage site. (Wikimedia Commons)

This new book gives a glimpse into the world of Urdu poetry

5 min read . 15 Aug 2023

A spread of Kashmiri dishes, including 'haakh', 'roganjosh' and 'damaloo'. (Courtesy Sanjay Raina)

Share your recipes to keep a cuisine alive, says this Kashmiri chef

4 min read . 08 Jun 2023

Manav Kaul in Aru valley, Kashmir, 2022. (Sugandha Garg)

For Manav Kaul, travel and writing go together

6 min read . 26 May 2023

Old, traditional houses on the banks of the Jhelum in Srinagar. (iStockphoto)

Kashmiri Pandits and stories of the state of exile

6 min read . 28 Apr 2023

Chandra Bhattacharjee at his studio, in Kolkata. (Photographs courtesy Art Alive Gallery)

Painting the fast-disappearing world of Tagore's Santiniketan

4 min read . 23 Feb 2023

Bhavana Challu's Kashmiri 'monje achaar', or knol khol pickle, made the traditional way. (Photographs courtesy Bhavana Challu)

The Kashmiri in California delivering ‘monje aachar’—and a taste of home

5 min read . 01 Feb 2023

Traditional houses with classic green shuttered windows, in north Kolkata. (Photographs by Nipa Charagi)

Travel: Walk around Kolkata-6, and discover its many charms

7 min read . 15 Jan 2023

Aparna Challu cooking in the kitchen at Habba Kadal in Whitefield, Bengaluru. (Photographs courtesy Aparna Challu)

A Kashmiri brings Habba Kadal to Bengaluru

7 min read . 06 Sept 2022

Neerja Mattoo during a session at the 2017 Jaipur Literature Festival. (JLF on YouTube)

'Kashmiri doesn't come naturally to most people': Neerja Mattoo

7 min read . 03 Mar 2022

(left) Nalini Moti Sadhu of Matamaal restaurant in Gurugram, which serves Kashmiri Pandit cuisine and also ‘wazwaan’ dishes; and their non-veg ‘thali’. (Courtesy Matamaal)

The chef who wants people to know what Kashmiri Pandits eat

5 min read . 27 Dec 2021

Kashmiri ‘damaloo’ (left), and ‘idlis’ by Sandeep Pandit, who was born in Kashmir and grew up in Bengaluru. (Photographs courtesy Sandeep Pandit)

Chef takes flavours of Kashmir, Karnataka to Australia

5 min read . 17 Nov 2021

The Hari Parbat hill in Srinagar, where you will find a 19th century fort, the Sharika Devi temple, Muslim shrines, and a gurudwara. In the foreground is the Hazratbal shrine. (ANI)

'Kashmiris are easy to intimidate and subdue'

7 min read . 05 Aug 2021

Tablaist Sandeep Das (left) and American cellist Mike Block. (Luke Zvara)

Where ‘bhajan’ meets gospel song

6 min read . 12 Jun 2021