An imposing double-arched concrete gateway has come up to demarcate Kashmir’s famed ‘Old City’ or Shehr-e-Khaas in Srinagar. The gateway, with its brick claddings and intricate woodwork, has been constructed at the entrance of the heritage city where people started settling more than 1,500 years ago. Old City is famous for its Sufi shrines, mausoleums, a series of bridges over Jhelum, mosques, temples and the places where agitations against autocracy first took place. “We had Nagar Nagar in the Old City, which was a walled city with two gates,” he said. In his opinion though, the gateway should have been constructed further ahead at Dalgate from where the Old City actually started.

Source: Hindustan Times March 04, 2018 09:56 UTC