For the running series on Kashmirispotting
Pan Shop, Pune |
Craft Shop, Mahabaleshwar, Satara district, Maharashtra |
in bits and pieces
Pan Shop, Pune |
Craft Shop, Mahabaleshwar, Satara district, Maharashtra |
Abandoned Pandit houses in a village on route to Pahalgam |
An abandoned Pandit house at a place near Dhar Bagh, Srinagar. |
Gar Zameen rov Firdaus’as,
tatha asto, tatha astho, tatha asto
Song for the last morsel
Acha falu
Macha falu
Khodaiy saehbun Bhatt’e falu
Yemiss razas Tchalu
Humiss kaawas lagu
Stairway that leads to Harwan monastery ruins. |
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Don’t tell anyone, SearchKashmir just entered its eighth year.
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The world with snow was silvered for a season,
But emerald came instead of the heaps of silver.
The rich pagoda of Cashmere at springtide
Surrendered to the garden all its pictures.
See how the lake’s whole surface by the March wind
Is raised, like sturgeon’s back, in scaly ridges!
~Abú Mansúr ‘Umára of Merv, flourished under the last king of the House of Sámán and the first of the House of Ghazna.