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“Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.” quote by Jan Morris — Download Open image

“Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.”

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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

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