Srinagar, April 18 -- Zainab runs Kashmir's first IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) law firm, and for over a decade, she's been helping artists, artisans, entrepreneurs, and small businesses protect the work they create.

Her office in Srinagar is often full of people who've never met a lawyer before-carpet weavers, sculptors, tech founders, farmers with ideas. She listens closely, not with the distance of legalese, but with a sense of shared purpose.

For her, IPR isn't about paperwork or patents for the sake of it. It's about recognition, fairness, and giving people the language and tools to claim what's theirs.

We sat down with Zainab to talk about what brought her to this kind of work, what it means to protect creativity in a place ...