To feel the cool breeze on a body
covered with drops of perspiration;
to taste the water, cold and clear,
in a mouth all parched with thirst;
after travelling far, to rest
the tired limbs beneath the shade:
blessed indeed is one who spends
the summer wandering in Kashmir
~ Bhatta Bana, Sanskrit stylist in court of King Harsha of 7th Century CE, Kannauj.
Came across it in ‘Subhashitavali: An Anthology of Comic, Erotic and Other Verse’, translated from the Sanskrit Subhashitavali of Vallabhadeva (fifteenth-century CE, Kashmir ) by A. N. D. Haksar.
Found the photograph in A lonely summer in Kashmir (1904) by Margaret Cotter Morison 'Is he still around?' 'Yes,' the teenage boy took he eyes off the road, one hand still on the steering, turned back and with a victorious smile added,'they tried to shoot even him. But he just…
View from a Shikara floating on Dal Lake. Photograph taken by me in June 2008. What's wrong with this picture? Inspiration: a wrongly uploaded photograph of Sal by James Burke. Is the frame upside down? Cross posted at my other blog -0- Garmiyon may Kashmir jannat hai In summer Kashmir is a paradise…
We know how the rightwing loonies in India react to nude art. We know what happens to the art and the artist. We know how the leaders of the right react. We know how the left intelligentsia argues back. But, what happens in Kashmir. It's 1947 and Sheikh Abdullah sets…
In "1948"
2 Replies to “who spends the summer wandering in Kashmir”
I too want to spend every summer wandering in Kashmir
I too want to spend every summer wandering in Kashmir
I plan to be there this winter 🙂