A winter in Kashmir
I had started writing this travelogue a few days before 370 was scrapped,maybe it was destiny ! I have not altered anything in the light of the recent developments,because the perspective would have changed. The problem of writing something which has occurred in the past is that you tend to forget the details,only the beautiful memories or the quirky ones are stored in the hard drive of the brain. So,before these memories are wiped out and replaced by new ones,I thought why not jot down a little bit about the first vacation that I had planned in my life,a trip to Kashmir with my wife,just after marriage. The worst of times had just passed! Militancy was at it's lowest, tourists and pilgrims were thronging Kashmir in hordes. If you have ever been to Kashmir, you should know that Kashmir becomes a dulhan in the autumn. But unfortunately our marriage was fixed in the cold winters of January,and so we decided to visit this place in February. In those days, marriage was a si...