Editor's Note:
Once is never enough. If you have once been cradled in a shikara on the stillness of an autumn lake in Srinagar, while paddle and water converse in gentle murmurs; if you have once walked on its crackling leaves of burnished chinars, trudged through its hushed mountain trails, and wandered even briefly into the lives of the boatman or scholar, student or poet, you will want to return to Kashmir. Kashmir is not just paradise on earth. It is paradise – a paradise, coveted by two nations.

Bina Sarkar Ellias
Editor