Srinagar – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com A blog exploring India's Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or its rich multi plural multi cultural heritage via its adab, tehzeeb & tareekh Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:04:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://ranasafvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-7-75x75.jpg Srinagar – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com 32 32 179612229 Ducks in Dal Lake, Srinagar https://ranasafvi.com/ducks-in-dal-lake-srinagar/ https://ranasafvi.com/ducks-in-dal-lake-srinagar/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2019 03:14:28 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/ducks-in-dal-lake-srinagar/ Early morning shikara ride in the Dal Lake and I saw some ducks having fun

]]> https://ranasafvi.com/ducks-in-dal-lake-srinagar/feed/ 0 14477 Nishat Bagh, Srinagar https://ranasafvi.com/nishat-bagh-srinagar/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 02:46:23 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/?p=10805 ‪‪So let’s escape the summer heat into a slice of heaven. #NishatBagh in #Srinagar built by Asaf Khan ( Shah Jahan ‘s father in law) ‬

Opposite #NishatBagh in the #DalLake is a beautiful old Bridge in shape of a camel’s hump‬

Dar goosh naseem guft saalash ‬

‪Gulzar e Nishat wa aish e dil ha

‪1634 ( chronogram for year of construction of #NishatBagh #Srinagar ‬

It is built on concept of #chaharBagh or four gardens of #Paradise

It is built on 12 levels with stone takht at edge of most of the levels

These water chutes or chadar had beautifully carved flowers in them which had holes. Apart from water flowing from top it would gush out from these too to create double effect

People enjoying themselves in the Nishat Gardens

Some fun on the 10th or is it 11th level?‬

‪I’ve lost count‬

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Lost in contemplation!

I too wonder what it must have been when it was made

‪The Mughal gardens were beautiful planned and laid out with trees and bushes. Today what we see have been altered with English landscaping ‬

The final level of #NishatBagh #Srinagar

This is the #zenana

However this building too has been modified

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