Winter Neighbours from Kargil

I like the way Jammu looks in winter. Last year, the neighbours were a couple of college kids from Drass who played cricket on the roof-top all day long. This years it’s the family of a stone-crusher worker from Kargil.

With her grand-daughter, Subril. She was the one who started the conversation.
 ‘Aap ka Naam kya hai’.
That according to her grandfather is the best she can manage in urdu till now. 

Believes it is right that the girls should be married young.
‘If boys go ‘haywire’ no one asks anything, but the world stops in case of girls.’
I have no clue why he picked this subject to open talks with me but I believe he must have been talking to my father lately.

Working on a necklace of beads and a sweater for her grand-daughter

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The boy likes to enact chest beating of Muharram.
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