Located on the western banks of the Dal Lake and nestled in hundreds of mighty chinar trees, Naseem Bagh has become a favourite spot for autumn lovers in Kashmir. In the summer of 1635, the Mughal emperor in Kashmir planted 1,200 chinar saplings, all at the same time in a “char chinar pattern” — four chinars trees in four corners of a rectangular piece of land — so that a person at the centre enjoys shade throughout the day. The area was later named as Naseem Bagh, meaning “garden of…
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