(Dec 24, 8:42pm)

The weather is getting harsher in Srinagar...
But Kashmir is a wonderful place...

I met the eminent journalists Mr Naseer Ganaie and Mr Peerzada Ashiq today.. Ganaie had taken me over for tea in this very cosy restaurent in MS Mall, where we also met MLA Engineer Rashid..

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Ganaie is such a humble and learned man.. and of cheerful disposition.. and very decently humourous... People here are so much simpler..

They don't utter the word *uck, two thousand times a day... and nobody wears dresses so short as may be rather regarded invitation for promiscuity...

I love the place, consequently... one day, freedom and civilisation, and the false allure for glamour and liberty-without restraint will corrupt it all!

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You have to be in Kashmir, to understand that simplicity too have glamour... that modesty is indeed comforting...

And that a kindly disposition and an affable smile, will always be above the razzmatazz that consumerism has made you able to afford today!

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