Kashmir, crowned as the heaven on earth, has been conflicted for decades. And not just post-partition. Don't let others fool you. Communal conflict and religious friction has been the reality of Kashmir for a century, but intolerance to the scale of unreasonable violence is only the story of the recent past.
While people are waiting for peaceful times amidst chaos, national and international media hasn't been helping the cause. By bringing forward only the worst, media has pushed the brighter side of Kashmir in the shadows.
This is my effort to represent the normalcy that is struggling to find a voice, and how living in a beautiful paradise is not always filled with blood baths and violent outbursts.
Martand Sun Temple was built by the third king of Lalitaditya Dynasty in 8th century BC and has a purely indigenous Aryan architecture. It is said the temple will never be completely destroyed by mankind, only an end of universe can truly demolish it's foundation. And several Mughal emperors have attempted it's destruction but never completely succeeded.
Father-daughter duo in Chatpal, Kashmir
Credits: SandeepaChetan
Sheshnag Lake, Anantnag is a hidden lake met en route to Amarnath
Credits: Prernaarun
Men in Srinagar walk through snow covered railway tracks.
Credits: SpArk
Women attend school in Kulgam district of Kashmir.
Credits: Younis
People walk out for their daily chores during heavy snowfall that gripped Anantnag district. Credits: SpArk
Domesticated geese and cows on the banks of Wular lake, Bandipora. Wular Lake is one of Asia's largest sweet water lakes.
A girl sails through the Dal Lake in a shikara.
Credits: Younis
Pir ki Gali, Mughal Road
Credits: Rajiv Kumar
A woman grazing sheep and collecting woods in Sangam Meadow, Shopian.
Credits: Rajiv Kumar
Javed, the ace baker in Sogam village, bakes wonderful Girdha and Sheermaal
Credits: Rajiv Kumar
Men go about their daily work as snowfall engulfs the outskirts of Srinagar.
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A Brogpa woman in Darchik, Ladakh. Brogpas considered themselves pure-blooded Aryans and guard their racial purity by marrying only within community.
Credits: Channi Anand
Kashmiri children selling corn on the outskirts of Srinagar.
Credits: Mukhtar Khan
A Kashmiri boy jumps into Nageen Lake from a bridge on a warm sunny day in Srinagar.
Credits: Dar Yasin
Young girls recite verses of Holy Quran during the month of Ramadan at a madarsa in Srinagar.
Credits: Mukhtar Khan
Hemis Tsechu being celebrated in Hemis, Ladakh
Credits: Marji Lang
The Durrani Fort on Koh-e-Maraan.
"The hill should be seen as a totem of Kashmiriyat (The amity between the three principal religions of Kashmir - Islam, Shaiviite Hinduism and Sikhism). This is so because the hill is home to Sheikh Hamzah Makhdoomi's (RA) shrine, the Shakti temple and a Gurudwara commemorating the visit of Guru Hargobind Singh."
Credits: Nahvijunaid
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