Looking for a new place to visit We were guided to try Naranag in Kangan. After a bumpy and sinuous drive through Kangan We torturously limped our way to Naranag….
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Walking through the lost byways of Doodpathri, Budgam, I felt like walking through my still turbulent childhood, Like Doodpathri my childhood was remote, lonely, and magnificent, I craved for love…
Above all kings, sultans, and governors, That have ruled the beautiful valley of Kashmir for eons, Has been the supreme ruler Sri Sarada Devi. She was there before creation and…
She bent gently on the Gulmarg north slope and asked for my hand, I pulled her up and the two of us started walking in the moonlight, The mountainous halo…
In the high sculptured mountain peaks, In the scintillating water bodies, The music of Kashmir still reverberates, Like in a poem, Everything in it is connected, Creating the majesty of…
Life has more than one side to it: One side is pulsating with hopes and desires, The other signifies the futility of that common hope. We wallow in endless hope…
When K.O.A. was chocked and close to death in 2011-12, Some people steadfastly held the hope that it would rise again. This has been the history of KOA in about…
My sail boat is small but the ocean is large. Journey has been turbulent and goalless, The purpose of the odyssey is unknown. Life is a chaos beckoning a dream….
From morning till evening, from birth till death, Modern man’s life is stitched with work. Is work the elixir of life or a gateway to happiness? Work as practiced by…
Kashmir is poor, un-peaceful, and antiquated – A sigh of nature, a tapestry of time. But Kashmir has a lover’s twinkle in her eyes, A mother’s womb, A friend’s unalloyed…