Gurez - finding its identity in the tourism map
Deccan ChronicleIn our journey up towards the 11,667-foot-high Razdan pass in the north of Kashmir, we soak ourselves in the breeze that finds a way towards us through the tall deodar trees. As we keep admiring her beauty, Gurez starts appearing as a long line of white and blue tents on the flood plains of Kishanganga. When Chak was imprisoned by Mughal emperor Akbar, she wandered around in grief and her tears flowed down through the Habba Khatoon mountain in Gurez to form a spring that flows into the Kishanganga river. According to researchers, who are part of this project and the Shina Cultural Centre, natives of Gurez lost the Shina script after the major part of the region came under Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. But when the winter winds start gusting and the green mountains of deodars turn white under the frozen snow, they move out of the valley like the migrating birds flocking tropical lakes.
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