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Around Zaina Kadal
Views from New Zaina Kadal
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Kashmir Map, 1851
A puzzling image for most of post-1947 generations. Interesting, how unfamiliar a place can get just by changing the way its map is laid out.
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Cabool, The Punjab & the Beloochistan
Issued 1851, London & New York by John Tallis & Company
Drawn & Engraved by J. Rapkin
via: davidrumsey.com
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And in this mind wrapping map: This is Kashmir….
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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.
Jama Masjid
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Sangin Darwaza
Sangin Darwaza/Per. Stone Gate: The more ornate of the
The other Darwaza:
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Update: Map for the three gates.
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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