{"id":17659,"date":"2019-05-13T03:59:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17659"},"modified":"2019-05-13T03:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:29:46","slug":"kashmiri-boy-started-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17659","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri boy started Podcast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Coverage in conflict regions like Kashmir tend to oscillate between two extremes&#8211;stereotypical mass media coverage that presents an over-wrought, untrue picture of what the realities on the ground really are, or a refreshingly honest portrayal of local voices on local matters. And now, an 18-year-old boy, Umar Nisar from a small hamlet of South Kashmir\u2019s Tral,  has joined the fray by initiating a youth-based Digital-Media network \u201cMashq-Talks\u201d a Kashmir based Talk show Digital media Network.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mashq  podcast series is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user listen on Spotify, Google Music, SoundCloud, iTunes, Youtube, Facebook, Youtube and other Digital Platforms.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe  main motive of podcast is to connect young Kashmir to the world\u201d Said Umar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 2014, when cloudburst and floods devastated the Valley, 18-year-old Umar Nisar started in Kashmir. Hailing from military hotbeds of Tral-Awantipora area of South Kashmir, And from the same boiling point Tral Umar Nisar like guy has emerged who&#8217;s keeping the title \u201cFirst\u201d to himself in Kashmir. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At a very young age, Umar Nisar has stood on the stage where king khan of Bollywood too stood. King khan was the first Bollywood actor to speak at ted talks and Umar Nisar the first Kashmiri teenager to speak at ted talks. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Eyeing on the Bollywood, Nisar is currently working on many projects but, right now, Mashq-Talks is his main focus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI majorly aspire to become a Film-Maker, but, I also want to continue radio as my career,\u201d concluded Umar.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coverage in conflict regions like Kashmir tend to oscillate between two extremes&#8211;stereotypical mass media coverage that presents an over-wrought, untrue picture of what the realities on the ground really are, or a refreshingly honest portrayal of local voices on local matters. And now, an 18-year-old boy, Umar Nisar from a small hamlet of South Kashmir\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}