Listened to by artisans as they work or at gatherings of Sufi music aficionados, cassette players hold sway in Indian-administered Kashmir Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp ...

He’s part of a small, dedicated community that believes cassette tapes are the best way to listen to and archive ... Only a few shops in Srinagar, the region’s main city, sell tape recorders or blank ...

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(AP Photo/Dar Yasin) Old cassette tapes are stacked on shelves at Mohammad Ashraf Matoo’s cassette tape player repair shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar ...

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SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

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