When the forty-day harsh winter period known as Chillai Kalan descends upon the Kashmir Valley, temperatures drop, but the spirit of the valley wraps itself in a singular, enduring garment: the Pheran ...

The Kashmiri Pheran, also spelled as Phiran, is a traditional garment worn in the Kashmir Valley, a region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. It is a loose, long-sleeved robe that serves ...

It was almost twenty years ago when Sneha Chaturvedi, a Delhi-based media professional, purchased her first-ever pheran (also known as 'phiran') during a family holiday in Kashmir. "I have loved ...

Either the administration had too much faith in the purported ploy of the Mughals to disarm Kashmiris, or the bureaucracy did not mine the rage boiling beneath the comforting pheran. The Jammu and ...

What used to be confined to homes as a winter garment has become a political and cultural symbol, with most leaders and many citizens donning the long cloak at offices and their places of work, ...

The suspension order of a forest guard in Kashmir has created a furor after politicians, including the erstwhile state’s former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, targeted the administration over the ...

Traditional Kashmiri pheran - a must woolen shoulder-to-knee-down robe worn in winters by a majority of the Valley population - has sparked a legal tussle, as a family served a legal notice to a ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi often choses to dress in a traditional attire while attending an event of a particular region and this time it was a Kashmiri "pheran" as he launched the Ayushman Bharat ...

Bajrang Dal leader Rakesh Bajrangi claimed 99 per cent grenade attacks in Kashmir have been carried out by those wearing pheran. SRINAGAR: After the February 19 militant attack in Srinagar in which a ...