For decades, cassette players have carried the soul-stirring poetry of Sufi saints and the mystical melodies of Kashmiri ...

(AP Photo/Dar Yasin) Old cassette tapes are arranged for a photograph inside a house in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) Kashmiri men listen Sufi songs ...

For decades, cassette players have carried the soul-stirring poetry of Sufi saints and the mystical melodies of Kashmiri instruments like the sarangi and santoor, and it’s long been a local ...

Even today, the region’s traditional Sufi music gatherings are often recorded only on the disappearing audio format, which was widely used from the 1970s to the 1990s.