Sunday, May 25, 2014

Srinagar - The Map Shawl










in the decrepit museum building a treasure in the form of a map of srinagar embroidered on a shawl. lovely.

Srinagar - Rainawari Imambara








In Rainawari on the backwaters, with a small dock and a graveyard, a square imambara with a domed inner courtyard and surrounding galleries with almost a colonial facade.

Srinagar - Old Town

Straddling the banks of the Jhelum, connected by bridges across, the city crumbles away. At Zaina Kadal the monuments line the river; at Habba Kadal between the abandoned pandit houses the loudspeakers from the mosques overlap prayers in kashimir and urdu/hindi.






























Srinagar - Hazratbal

On the banks of the Dal Lake, the shrine that houses a relic in the form of hair of the prophet muhammed.