When the world is cruelly indifferent I come to Nishat Bagh To resolve my problems. Is this a garden of paradise? Or just a garden Where people love to stroll…
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Today we have plunged in deep sorrow And mourn the passing away of K.O.A. The fraternity that gave us sustenance, spirit, and soul. They sullied, humiliated, and cut asunder the…
Some life I burnt in the search of the absolute in life, Some I expended at the altar of knowledge of nature, The life thus lived lumbered on the unsmooth…
Written For The 1st Kashmiri Pandit Youth Conference To Be Held At Pune, India On January 7 & 8, 2012 Let the word go forth from Pune that a new…
Time, the invisible charioteer, Leads us through the many terrains of life – Always silent, always there. It gives order, flow, and substance to life. There are things in nature…
I took these photos of Raj Begum and others on Aug. 13, 2011, at a restaurant at Dal Gate, Srinagar, Kashmir. Following are the descriptions, from the top:…
After having left Kashmir in 60s to study engineering at Banaras, and not knowing if I was returning back there to work, I was haunted by the lost opportunity to…
On August 19, at about noon, I was in front of the house I was born at several decades ago. While experiencing the moment I could feel the flow of…
It had been 25 years since I had visited Gulmarg. My urge to revisit it was intense, but more intense than that was to find its soul; because I had…
On a weekday, in the early afternoon, I reached Mansbal Lake. It is a small, pearl of a lake, placid, unpretentious. Its appearance and size makes you connect with it…