Srinagar, June 24 -- Iqra Nazir didn't set out to build a business. She set out to protect something tender.

She comes from a tech background, but her eyes were always on the small things, like Wartaav, the handwritten record of who gifted what at weddings and Nikkahs. It's a tradition passed from hand to hand, often by women, and often unnoticed.

Iqra saw it written on scraps of paper, the last page of a school notebook. She saw how it held more than just names. It held gratitude, memory, relationships. And she saw how easily it could vanish.

So she built Dawat Book. Not just an app, but a home for that fading tradition. And it grew, into a platform that now celebrates local bakers, women growers, forest foragers. And into a space tha...