Category: Kashmir Tourism
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Kashmir tourism and environment!
The two are inseparably linked. Next to horticulture if properly explored within the parameters of the ecosystem, tourism is the most significant for Kashmir’s economy and employment. Tourism has a long history in Kashmir, Europeans gave direction and push to Kashmir tourism by introducing Kashmir, its natural beauty and adventure prospects to outside world. They…
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Bleak Srinagar Landscape!
Materialism has done the damage. On universal garden and landscape scenario only two forms of gardens are documented as formal and informal. Almost all Mughal gardens are formal and the rest all landscape is categorized as informal. So, most of our landscape in Srinagar is formal. Formal pattern of landscaping suit well to topography of Kashmir…
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Sukhna Lake and Dal Lake
One is fresh and living, the other dull and dying! During the last more than three decades I may have visited Chandigarh many times, but my wish to visit its most prominent landmarks—Sukhna Lake and Nek Chand’s Rock Garden materialised only last week. Sukhna Lake created in the year 1958 is just one more man-made…
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Srinagar — The city of joy!
A lot need be done to restore it the beauty… In late eighties a friend of mine gifted me a book titled ‘The City of Joy’ written by Dominique Lapierre. Treating it as another work of fiction, I did not even turn the pages of this book for months as I am not used to…
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Gulmarg as India’s Davos!
Not a bad idea, but it needs a lot more than mere comparing the two! Dreaming big is prelude to successes. The best part of Mufti Muhammad Syeed’s public life has been to dream big. Be it politics or anything else, his visionary zeal always made him to go for the bull’s eye. Political dreams apart,…