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Saffron

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Saffron spice, used in cooking the world over to add taste and colour, comes from the Kashmiri crocus flowers and their fragrant reddish-orange stamens which are plucked, then dried...

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Agriculture

Queuing for liquor in Srinagar

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As calm slowly returns to Indian Kashmir, people are returning more openly to old lifestyles, such as enjoying a drink...

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Culture | People

Extreme Skiing in Indian Kashmir

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The 2,000-metre (6,600-foot) vertical descent to Gulmarg, a village in revolt-hit Indian-administered Kashmir, is what many ski devotees rank as among the best skiing on the planet. Just ignore the travel warnings...

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Sports

Being there

Ameer Hamza - ameer_great [1,153]

Earthquake has devastated much of what we call Azad Kashmir. Relief work is everywhere. People are either handing over aid or receiving it. Over the next few days my photography assignment will take...

Destinations: Pakistan | Kashmir Region

Kashmir - the Forgotten Occupation

Sumaya Teli - sumteli [83]

A young girl is sitting in front of me, ironing the white shalwar kameez that is her uniform, ready for school the next day. We have been chatting about the usual stuff - clothes, movies, school... I...

Destinations: India | Pakistan | Islamabad | Kashmir Region
Topics: People | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
Cable car at Kongdoori in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Skiing Kashmir

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KONGDOORI, India, Feb 19, 2004 - The scenic Himalayan territory of Kashmir, where the tourist trade has been devastated by a 15-year insurgency, is hoping to become an elite ski destination when its...

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Travel | Sports
A gondola making its way from the Gulmarg resort to Kongdoori on the only existing cable-cars in Kashmir.

Highest cable-car to prompt winter sports boom in troubled Kashmir

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KONGDOORI, India, Jan 8, 2003 - Rebellion-torn Indian Kashmir will be among the best ski destinations in Asia when one of the region's highest cable-cars is completed this year, officials said.

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Sports

Kashmir in new fight to woo film makers

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Srinagar, India, April 13, 2003 - India's picturesque state of Kashmir is offering cheap helicopter rides and armed protection to shed its "killing fields" image and regain its position as a top film...

Destinations: India | Pakistan | Islamabad | Kashmir Region
Topics: Performing Arts | Art
Two Kashmiri brothers and their twin sisters sit on a rock looking at rides inside Kashmir's first amusement park in Pahalgam.

First Kashmir amusement park

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Kashmiris looking for respite from war can now enjoy the province's first amusement park, but their enthusiasm is not shared by environmentalists who say a pristine mountain resort has been spoiled.

Destinations: India | Kashmir Region
Topics: Beaches & Resorts
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