Kawai mused that all media and media devices are ephemeral. In the distant future, an unearthed SD memory card may be as ...

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 ...

Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along ...

Mohammad Ashraf Matoo, a self-taught mechanic, has spent years keeping decades-old cassette players running even as spare parts become increasingly scarce. He purchases non-functional recorders to ...

Mohammad Ashraf Matoo, a self-taught mechanic, has spent years keeping decades-old cassette players running even as spare parts become increasingly scarce. He purchases non-functional recorders to ...

has spent years keeping decades-old cassette players running even as spare parts become increasingly scarce. He purchases non-functional recorders to extract usable components, and manufactures ...

(AP Photo/Dar Yasin) Self-taught tape recorder mechanic Mohammad Ashraf ... stacked on shelves at Mohammad Ashraf Matoo’s cassette tape player repair shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir ...