SRINAGAR, India - Shareef-ud-din Ahmed (68) beats a sheet of metal in a makeshift workshop in his courtyard in north Kashmir's Kreeri village. He carves out motifs on the orange-red metal - often shifting the utensil in his hand from one side another. The symmetric imprints on the metal reveal the mastery he has over his craft. For generations Ahmed's […]

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