Srinagar, June 25 -- Kashmir's bid to place Sufiyana Mousiqi on UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage comes at a crucial moment.

The effort, led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah through a formal proposal to the Government of India, seeks a future for one of Kashmir's oldest and most distinctive artistic traditions.

Cultural heritage often enters public discourse through monuments, shrines, and historic buildings. Music tells a different story.

It lives through memory, practice, and transmission. A musical tradition survives because people learn it, perform it, teach it, and cherish it.

Once that chain weakens, centuries of accumulated knowledge begin to fade.

Sufiyana Mousiqi stands as one of Kashmir's greatest cultural achiev...