Rare Kashmir Images

1976 winter January Near Burn hall school Srinagar.
Srinagar is the second oldest city of the sub-continent, only second to Varanasi, only few years back you would see the remains of the traffic signals at Dalgate near the road that goes to boulevard.
Srinagar was a beautiful small city in 1960. But there were neither Traffic lights nor double decker buses. Double decker buses plied from Lal Chowk to Nishat and Pampore in early eighties. However, there were buses, Matadors, jeeps, cars, three wheeler vehicles called woon woon motor etc. Srinagar, was a much better city, than it is today.
From fifties KASHMIR started to loose its sheen. KASHMIR was beautiful, pristine and pure in those days. Today it is not hell, but near hell, because of buildings, construction, vehicles.

1905 Madeen Sahib Hawal Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
Madeen Sahib Masjid was built by Sultan Zain-ul-Abideen (Budshah) in 1448. He named it after his teacher Syed Mohammad Madani, who is also buried to the left of the Masjid. He is supposed to have come from Medina.
Great heritage, needs to be preserved in original shape.

Kashmir In Winter 1980.
Winters of 1980s..A common practice those days to carry Kanger inside pheran even while being out...
People used to carry 'Kanger' while having a chat on "waane panje pyeth". Now many Kashmiris have given up using kangris at home and switched to acs, gas heaters etc.

1950 Kashmiri village boy. Innocence at its peak.

1950s Kashmiri Women carrying fire wood. Salute to women of past for being back bone of a household.
The village women used to tie a cloth around their back ( HUL GANDUN ) as a support while doing heavy work.
Woman of Kashmir have always contributed a lot in every field of life in all times weather on those or today great job and salute to women folk.
"Zalon" to be burnt for cooking and used in kangri during harsh winters. Sign of poverty of the time now replaced by LPG.

1964 Nageen lake, Srinagar Kashmir.
A foreign visitors family enjoying Shikara ride.