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March 15, 2014October 12, 2020

Views from New Fateh Kadal, 2014

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Kashmiris it seems are very conscious about it. A young girl walking on the bridge stopped to suggest that I take pictures in Summer when there is more water.

March 14, 2014October 12, 2020

Sangin Darwaza

Sangin Darwaza/Per. Stone Gate: The more ornate of the ~~two~~ three gates (other two being Kathi and Bachi) built below Hari Parbat on orders of Akbar for his ‘Nagar Nagar’ township.

The other Darwaza:

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Update: Map for the three gates.

March 12, 2014October 12, 2020

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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March 12, 2014October 12, 2020

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.

Num. Nail. The front portion of a Kashmiri boat.

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March 11, 2014October 12, 2020

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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March 8, 2014October 12, 2020

Fragments of a Persistent Dream

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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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February 19, 2014October 12, 2020

Majrooh’s Paradise

Continuing with the theme of Kashmir as Paradise…

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.