This is a traditional story about a king who teaches his sons that unity is strength. He explains that one person by himself, just like one stick, can be broken easily, but many people together, like many sticks, cannot be so easily broken. Aurangzeb (born 1985) told the story while Gohar Rehman, born 1981, listened.

Video of Muhibuddin describing (in Urdu) a traditional Burusho house in the village Sultanabad, Gilgit.

Recording of Bakhtawar Shah recalling cultural events in the Nagar dialect.

Recording of Durdana Khan reciting an account of the cultural traditions of Burusho weddings in the Yasin dialect of Burushaski.

Recording of Muhammad Wazir Khan, a speaker of Yasin Burushaski, giving a cultural account about a folk song, popularly known as "Bor Bor".

Recording of Muhammad Wazir Khan ("Wazir Shafi"), a speaker of Yasin Burushaski, discussing the origins of place names in Gilgit and surrounding areas.

Recording of Mohammad Nadir Khan reciting an account of the cultural festival of Hemaz. He is speaking in the Yasin dialect of Burushaski.

Recording of Yasin Burushos from Hundur talking about musical instruments used in Yasin.

Recording of Muhammed Wazir Khan ("Wazir Shafi"), a speaker of the Yasin dialect of Burushaski, reciting a narrative on Burusho culture.

Recording of a traditional narrative where a cunning wife puts her husband to test by pretending to be ill all the time. The husband uses all possible means to cure her but to no avail. He then asks his wife to suggest what else he could do to cure her. She asks him to disgrace his mother. He disgraces her mother instead. His wife is shocked to see this. However, he responds to her saying that he did what she had asked him to do in order to cure her illness. The narrator Abdul Qayum (a 60-year old male factory worker) is narrating the story to two young speakers of Mankiyali (Abdul Haq and Aurangzeb).

Recording of a traditional narrative where a cunning wife puts her husband to test by pretending to be ill all the time. The husband uses all possible means to cure her but to no avail. He then asks his wife to suggest what else he could do to cure her. She asks him to disgrace his mother. He disgraces her mother instead. His wife is shocked to see this. However, he responds to her saying that he did what she had asked him to do in order to cure her illness. The narrator Abdul Qayum (a 60-year old male factory worker) is narrating the story to two young speakers of Mankiyali (Abdul Haq and Aurangzeb).

Recording of Muhib Uddin Hunzai, a speaker of Hunza Burushaski from Gilgit, describing a traditional house of Hunza. The recording was made in Danyor, a small village near Gilgit town.

This is an Information Flyer in the Azamgarhi language. These flyers were designed in different languages of India and the Indian subcontinent, as an initiative by Society for Endangered Languages (SEL India) to create awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with members and office bearers of Burushaski Research Academy (BRA) during a lecture session with Allama Nasiruddin Nasir Hunzai.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with Shehnaz Saleem Hunzai (left), an official of Burushaski Research Academy (BRA) and Samina (right), a Burushaski speaker.

Photograph of Allama Nasiruddin Nasir Hunzai while speaking to members of Burushaski Research Academy (BRA). Dr. Sadaf Munshi was a guest in the gathering.

Photograph of Nasima Ali (left), Piar Karim (center) & Wazir Shafi (right) - research assistants to Dr. Sadaf Munshi taken in Gahkuch.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi (left), Nasima Ali (centre), and Muhammad Wazir Shafi at Green Palace Hotel, Gahkuch.

Photograph of the wooden hanging bridge linking Sherqilla (old name "čʰeer") village with the Gizer-Gilgit Road in Punyal.

Photograph of (late) Allama Nasiruddin Nasir Hunzai, A famous Hunza Burushaski poet, a religious scholar and prolific writer. He is considered to be the first ever to publish Burushaski poetry. He is also one of the few who devised Perso-Arabic based alphabets to write Burushaski. His Burushaski-Urdu Dictionary was published posthumously by the Burushaski Research Academy (BRA) - The NGO that he had founded. He is also known as "Baba-e-Burushaski" (the father of (Hunza) Burushaski).

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with office bearers and workers of Burushaski Research Academy (BAR), an NGO dedicated to documentation and revitalization of Hunza Burushaski.

Joya Medok Doley demonstrates the process of extracting silk threads from a silkworm cocoon bundle called takuri kénam. The silkworms are fed green leaves and kept in a dark room to mature. Once they have formed cocoons, the cocoons are grouped and rolled in a bamboo roller called takpín. From the takpín, silk threads are extracted into a second roller which is thinner, called poːpi.