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| An abandoned Pandit house at a place near Dhar Bagh, Srinagar. |
Gar Zameen rov Firdaus’as,
tatha asto, tatha astho, tatha asto
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Acha falu Macha falu
Song for the last morsel
Acha falu
Macha falu
Khodaiy saehbun Bhatt’e falu
Yemiss razas Tchalu
Humiss kaawas lagu
Kana Mana Tu
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| Stairway that leads to Harwan monastery ruins. |
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Don’t tell anyone, SearchKashmir just entered its eighth year.
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The world with snow was silvered for a season,
But emerald came instead of the heaps of silver.
The rich pagoda of Cashmere at springtide
Surrendered to the garden all its pictures.
See how the lake’s whole surface by the March wind
Is raised, like sturgeon’s back, in scaly ridges!
~Abú Mansúr ‘Umára of Merv, flourished under the last king of the House of Sámán and the first of the House of Ghazna.
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जी मे आता है अभी
ज़ेब-ए-रकम कलम उठाऊ
क़िस्सा तमाम करु
कश्मीर पर एटम बम
नागासाकी मे बहार
का ऐलान करू
ज़ेब-ए-रकम कलम उठाऊ
क़िस्सा तमाम करु
कश्मीर पर एटम बम
नागासाकी मे बहार
का ऐलान करू
पर क्या करू
ज़ेब पर एतबार नहीं
और आज एतवार भी तो नहीं
ज़ेब पर एतबार नहीं
और आज एतवार भी तो नहीं
Achchabal Eyes
The Spring of tears has made my eyes an Achchabal,
a Mar, a Jhelum, [flowering] into the Dal.
~ Mathnavi-yi Kashmir, Dayaram Kachru ‘Khushdil’ (1743-1811) writing in Kabul.
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Picked Kashmir at Delhi Book Fair, 2015
Returned back after a gap of two years. Most of the works still the same old. But managed to find two…
Sarada and Takari Alphabets: Origin and Development
by Bhushan Kumar Kaul Deambi, foreword by Walter Slaje
Year: 2008
Publisher: D.K. Printworld
Price: Rs. 900
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Rasul Mir by G.R. Malik Sahitya Akademi First Edition, 1990 Rs. 15 |
Previously:
shop in Ooty
The reach of Kashmiri traders never ceases to amaze me.
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| Kashmir House Ooty Handicraft shop |
Tibetan Shop. In Ooty. The Himalayan neighbours of Kashmir. Another prolific moving/trading community.
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shop in Pune
A curious Kashmiri crafts shop in Pune.
Inside:
Little shop of cultural curiosities.
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camp in Uri
Inside the army camp on entering Uri
Remains of 1947 war.
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| Female and Male Markhor |
Remains of the era when this area for famous among hunters.
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| Varah at Baramulla |
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