At the edge of Bombay
my Nani
looks at Arabian sea
and concedes
it is as big as Wular Lake
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| Sea front at Apollo Bunder, Mumbai |
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At the edge of Bombay
my Nani
looks at Arabian sea
and concedes
it is as big as Wular Lake
At the edge of Bombay
my Nani
looks at Arabian sea
and concedes
it is as big as Wular Lake
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For the running series on Kashmirispotting
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| Pan Shop, Pune |
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| Craft Shop, Mahabaleshwar, Satara district, Maharashtra |
areas in Kashmir
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| Abandoned Pandit houses in a village on route to Pahalgam |
There are areas in Kashmir where Shias live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Sunnis live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Sikhs live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Armies live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Terrorists live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Sunnis live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Sikhs live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Armies live.
There are areas in Kashmir where Terrorists live.
Areas marked and divided like compost bin.
Some houses there are even for
Tibetan, Uzbek, Afghan and Iranian refugees.
Tibetan, Uzbek, Afghan and Iranian refugees.
They all have houses in Kashmir from which we often hear talk of war and peace.
Now, if you ask, “But, where do Pandits live in Kashmir?”
“I have heard three live about a mile from here, two a mile after that, seen them with my own eyes and the remaining – they all live in our heart.”
So lease me your big heart for a minute or two, I need to use the loo.
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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
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 |
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