Gaash

Compulsion One would cry and not restrain the tears, But crying is of no avail, Shedding incessant tears is of no avail, And knocking one's head against boulders is of no avail. And knowing that there is none to heed, Why this urge to…

Stay Close to me Open your eyes and see Bursting through your seams, From my mouth a wish leaves. It breaks through the Rainbows Now outside it's Dark red, green and yellow Blinded by the sun now, Do not hide, see the view And go against…

In the deep, dark forests of the mysterious Orient, you hunt Musk and with it, prepare a bath of honey and milk for me. You engage mermaids from million leagues deep Oceans to attend on me. My Kohl is prepared deftly by shy Bedouin virgins…

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 5 This reign was, too remarkable for the execution of an engineering scheme to prevent floods and drain the valley, a precisely similar idea to that on which Major de Lothibinere worked out…

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 4 Passing now over a period of six centuries, the only authentically recorded event in which is the reign, A.D. 515, of Mihirakula, the ‘White Hun’, a persecutor of the Buddhist faith, ‘ a…

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 3 Thus among the first authentic facts we can safely lay hold of from among mistry and elusive statements of exuberant Oriental historians, is the fact that Ashoka’s sovereign power extended…

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 2 On a perfectly open and even plain, gently sloping away from a background of snowy mountains, looking directly out on the entire length both of the smiling Kashmir valley and of the snowy…

By Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Part 1 A country of such striking natural beauty must, surely, at some period of history have produced a refined and noble noble people! Amid these glorious mountains, breathing their free and…

Muriel A.E. Brown Chenar Leaves: Poems of Kashmir (1921) Mrs. Percy Brown Published by Longmans,Green and Co (London) in 1921 September 6, 2015 Pari Mahal ! Strange and romantic name Bestowed by folk-lore on this ancient pile Above the Dal…

O bulbul, let the freedom urge possess your soul ! Bid good bye to your cage, step out, Gather your flowers and enjoy their bloom! Speak out bold and clear. Your voice Need not falter with fear As when you sang within your cage. In…