“Agar firdaus bar ru-e zamin ast, Hami ast o-hami ast o-hami ast”
(If there is paradise on Earth it is this, it is this, it is this)
--Mughal Emperor Jahangir, when he saw Kashmir for the first time
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(picture source: news photos)
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Paradise Lost
(picture source: news photos)
1 comment:
Your photos while not in the usual 'paradisey' mould depict the incomparable 'sri', the beauty and the serenity of the region, now perhaps lost for ever, so well.
The impulse is to let out a rudali kind of wail fermenting inside.
A most telling juxtaposition.
Thank you.
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