Srinagar, Oct. 27 -- Every family in Kashmir has a recording it cannot quite replace, a cassette of a wedding Wanvun, a video of a grandparent speaking in a village dialect, a radio song remembered more clearly than the year it was broadcast. These objects rarely look important. They sit in cupboards, shoe boxes, old almirahs and forgotten hard drives. Yet they carry something that official records often do not, the sound of a place, the cadence of a language, the texture of everyday life. As the world marks World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on October 27, Kashmir has reason to pay attention. The region's past is preserved not only in manuscripts, monuments and written histories, but in voices, songs, performances, family films and broad...