A typical modern house in a suburb of Srinagar. Actually it’s not modern, this house design was popular around 1980s.
Location: Raj Bagh, Srinagar
House Roof and Kitchen Garden
in bits and pieces
in bits and pieces
A typical modern house in a suburb of Srinagar. Actually it’s not modern, this house design was popular around 1980s.
Location: Raj Bagh, Srinagar
till early 20th century housetops in cities used to be amix of
> mud&birch leaves.Birch tree barks are waterproof& birch bark formed a
> good wring material
> all sharda scripts used to be written on birch.
> the birch trees are nearly extinct.i was was surprised to see some
> birch trees at a certain height of sonamarg
> near its receding glacier
>
Wasn’t birch also used for making torches?
Also, I also read that pilgrims to Amaranth used to make loincloth out of birch. They used to wear it after taking the ritual bath and then proceed to enter the cave wearing only this birch loincloth.