Abstract:
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Kashmir is a land of fabled beauty and eternal romance. It is blessed by nature with beauteous scenery, wondrous fertility and salubrious climate. Writer described it as “one of the finest countries upon which the sun shines” and “the sub-Alpine region of Asia‟s Italy” and unsurpassed land for its scenery, Kashmir is verily “the terrestrial paradise of the Indies. A fairy land, where each curve presents a grand picture and every horizon a new scene, each leaf a distinct lesson and each flower a new book. The poets have described Kashmir as garden land of picturesque scenery, lovely landscapes, unrivalled vistas, majestic forests, green pastures, shimming waters of vast silent and transparent lakes and rivers, perennial snows, mighty chinars of snow-clad mountains rumbling cataracts and roaring waterfall |