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Like Nimrat Kaur, Enjoy a Shikara Boat Ride on Your Next Trip to Kashmir

October 4, 2025October 4, 2025 Editor

Like Nimrat Kaur, Experience a Shikara Boat Ride on Dal Lake, Kashmir 2025 By: Javid Amin | 03 October 2025 Bollywood Glam Meets Kashmiri Charm The viral video of Bollywood actress Nimrat Kaur drifting across Dal Lake in a traditional shikara boat has rekindled fascination with Kashmir’s timeless waterways. In the clip, she sits composed in a rust-orange suit, the soft hum of oars, the lake’s mirrored surface, and the snow-dusted mountains in the distance. She quotes Amir Khusro, “If there is paradise on earth, it is this, it is…

Snow-blanketed Paradise: Sinthan Top Draws Throngs of Tourists

January 18, 2024 Editor

As Kashmir is going through one of its worst dry phases, snow has melted at most places, which usually remained covered under a thick blanket of snow for this time of the year An otherwise off-beat destination, Sinthan Top, a snow-clad mountain peak situated at 12,500 feet, is attracting tourists in hordes as local travel agents redirect the visitors to the spot to experience some snow There is no snow elsewhere in Kashmir in the month of January, but my heart filled with joy when I reached Sinthan Top. —Aslam…