in bits and pieces
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| Num. Nail. The front portion of a Kashmiri boat. |
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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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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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| 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 from
‘Wild flowers of Kashmir’ by B. O. Coventry (1923)
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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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| 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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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.
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| from a book published in 1959 |
Although Edward Powys Mathers is more famous for ‘Bilhana: Black Marigolds’ (1919), which was later used by John Steinbeck for dramatic purposes in his American novel ‘Cannery Row’ (1945), Edward Powys Mathers was also one of the first translators of Kshemendra’s Smayamatrika.
His english version came out as ‘Harlot’s Breviary’ in volume 2 of book ‘Easter Love’ (1927).
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The book was available at Digital library of India but the reading method provided there is not too easy. So I have recompiled and uploaded the book to archive.org
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