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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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Kana Mana Tu
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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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Gosain Teng
Baramulla bridge with Gosain Teng in background (with in Kaznag and Shamasabri ranges, an extension of the Pir Panjal Range). Illustration published in ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer’ (1854).
Gosain Teng, Baramulla. ‘Teng’ is the Kashmiri word for ‘Hillock’ and ‘Gosain’ is the Hindi/Sanskrit Goswami meaning ‘Ascetic’. Nowadays atop the hill is an army bunker. According to entry for the place in Hasan Shah’s (1832-1898) ‘Tarikh-e-Hassan’ there are supposed to be four springs atop the hill. Kunds named after Ram, Sita, Lakshman and Hanuman.
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Sheen oos pyawaan thali thali
Na bozaan hyund ti musalman
Kangir hyeth oos
Shiv Shalfa Karaan
Parvati Wadaan:
‘Hyesa, Bozaan Chiv Sa,
Tchyn’e gey Tamaam,
Wyon kya karav?’
Shiv Asaan:
‘Wol Dima yath Kasheeri bey Naar’
Parvati Wadaan:
‘Hyesa, Bozaan Chiv Sa,
Tchyn’e gey Tamaam,
Wyon kya karav?’
Shiv Asaan:
‘Wol Dima yath Kasheeri bey Naar’
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