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Visiting Sufi Shrines in Srinagar With Respect
You have two free mornings in Srinagar, a houseboat host who keeps saying you must see Hazratbal, and no idea whether you are...
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You have two free mornings in Srinagar, a houseboat host who keeps saying you must see Hazratbal, and no idea whether you are...
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Walk down the lanes behind Zaina Kadal in old Srinagar on a weekday morning and you will hear it before you see it: the soft...
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The first winter evening I spent with a family in Srinagar, the power went out just after sunset. Nobody seemed bothered.
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The Kashmiri shawl arrived in Europe as a luxury object in the late eighteenth century, carried west by the officers of the...
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Kashmiri papier-mache is known locally as kar-i-kalamdani, which translates roughly as the work of the pen case, a reference to...
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The Mughal relationship with Kashmir began in earnest with Emperor Akbar, who added the valley to the empire in 1586.