Sangin Darwaza/Per. Stone Gate: The more ornate of the
The other Darwaza:
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Update: Map for the three gates.
Sangin Darwaza
Sangin Darwaza/Per. Stone Gate: The more ornate of the
Sangin Darwaza/Per. Stone Gate: The more ornate of the
Dance and Cabaret, 1944
A collection of photographs, receipts and postcards belonging to an anonymous British soldier who visited Kashmir in around 1944 during World War 2.
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Batt’e Bagh, Nagin Lake
A large ruined garden estate surrounded on three sides by Nagin Lake that belongs to a rich old pandit family. Hence the name.
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| Num. Nail. The front portion of a Kashmiri boat. |
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Nagin Lake
The deeper lake whose clearer water tends to take on bluish tint. Hence the name.
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Stayed at Yaseen’s Mascot Houseboat. He first started reading the blog back in 2010, coming for a post on origin of houseboats.
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Fragments of a Persistent Dream
Video: Half shot about 3500 Kilometers away from Kashmir. Half in Kashmir.
Background score: An old recording of a Kashmiri song by Raj Begum
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Majrooh’s Paradise
Continuing with the theme of Kashmir as Paradise…
Aye Cheshmay Tamasha Jhoom Zara
Aye Cheshmay Tamasha Jhoom Zara
Ab Waqt e nazara aa pohcha
Kashmir may do din jeenay ko
Kashmir ka mara Aa pohcha
Firdaus kay ghum ho janay ka
Kuch gham na karey
Adam say kaho
Akhir ko tumhari jannat may
Farzand tumhara aa pohcha
Line of Majrooh Sultanpuri (1919 − 2000) delivered (in a bombastic manner) by Dev Anand in Teen Devian (1965). The scene has a mushaira held on a houseboat in Srinagar. Majrooh was last of the great urdu poets claimed by film world as a lyricist.
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| Poplar Avenue From Francis Frith’s album. Around 1850s to 1870s. via: Victoria and Albert Museum. |
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The Dal Lake Where the Lotus Lilies Grow
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| The Dal Lake Where the Lotus Lilies Grow from
‘Wild flowers of Kashmir’ by B. O. Coventry (1923)
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Kashmir 75-76
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| Back waters of Dal Lake by Bill Strong. October 1975 |
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| ‘On road to Gulmarg’ by Bill Strong. January 1976 |
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| ‘View from Shankaracharya Hill ‘ by Bill Strong. January 1976 |
Checkout his complete Kashmir Album over at Flickr here
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Kashmir by Robert Baden-Powell, 1915
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| Baramulla |
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| Background, Fort Hari Parbat, Srinagar |
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| Beaters at lunch during a hunt |
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| Kashmiri Carriers |
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| Kashmiri Children |
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| Doonaga |
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| Design of a Doonaga |
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| Plaits |
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| Breakfast Camp |
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| Liddar Valley |
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| Entrance to the Liddar Valley |
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| Pandritan Temple ruins |
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| Post Office and club at Achibal |
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| Sunset |
From ‘Indian Memories: Recollections of Soldiering Sport, Etc.’ (1915) by Sir Robert Baden-Powell
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Harwan Reservoir, 1930s
The flip side of reads:
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| “near the Dal lake banks close to the garden of shalamar” |
Readers were easily able to identify the place as old Harwan Reservoir. The structure still stands.