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| Way back from Gulmarg. June, 2008 |
‘I haven’t seen such forests. The air of creation moves inside them. Something religious and primordial comes to memory and blurs it melodiously.’
Petros Vlastos (1879-1941), India born Greek writer who spent most of his time in India and England, wrote this about the forests of Kashmir in his book Critical Journeys (1912). West came to Kashmir for all kind of reasons, this one was apparently seeking to understand through nature the history of race.*
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*Greek diaspora and migration since 1700: society, politics and culture by Dimítris Tzióvas, Dēmētrēs Tziovas
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