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Watch | Inside Kashmir’s village of poets
Khalid Bashir, Fayaz Tilghami, Ranjoor Tilghami and Showkat Ahmad Lone together at Fayaz Tilghami's house in Tilgham. Photograph by Umer Asif for The Kashmir Walla.
The tradition of poetry in the village was born a century ago when one of its residents, Shah Ibrahim, started to pen verses. The following generation of poets created a culture of poetry in Tilgham and inspired Ranjoor, 70, and many others – some of them are young and some now with wrinkled faces.
 
Report by Zenaira Bakhsh with Umer Asif.