essey on winter in Kashmir
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Winter in Kashmir
Nature knows its course best. Every season has its own importance and utility. No season is less important than others. One season opens the smooth passage for the other to flourish.
Winter is the fourth season of the four well known seasons of Kashmir It follows autumn and lasts from December to February. It is generally considered as insignificant and treated as an unwelcome guest. The period between 22 December and 3 January is its climax.
Winter is the coldest season of the year. During this season the sun loses its heat and brightness and often remains hidden behind clouds, fog or mist. The temperature is usually around freezing point. It’s usually a cruel and an unpleasant season though it has a charm of its own.
In winter, the valley seems to be dressed in white overalls. The streets, bazaars, fields, gardens and roofs are all covered with snow. Water freezes and it is icy everywhere. Birds, beasts, cattle and other creatures are unwilling to roam about. Dogs forget their barking and crow their cawing.
As soon as winter sets in, the business hustle and bustle declines. The Govt. offices shift to Jammu. The schools and colleges remain closed in winter almost for two and a half or sometimes for three months. Sometimes due to heavy snowfall and avalanches, the valley gets cut off from the rest of the country for a long time.
Though not as charming as in spring, Kashmir is still attractive during winter. The snow-covered slopes of Gulmarg and other like places attract tourists all over the place country for skating and skiing.
Though long nights are jumpy and boring, soft and warm beds are soothing. People use “Phirans” and “Kangris” – the traditional Kashmiri weapons to fight the biting chill of the winter. Winter is a part of our climatic phenomenon. It is a blessing in disguise.
It all gets covered with the colour of winter, the colour of dusk. Shades of grey start to dominate. Temperature starts dipping, air breeze gets cooler, people add more layers to raise their body temperatures.
Winter in Kashmir is a five months season but the real winter is experienced in the forty days of Chilai kalan, starting from December 21 to January 31, and if it snows in these forty days, the experiences get worst. Old aged and children are forced to sit inside as the snow in Chilai kalan fr
eezes gets harder and becomes slippery to walk.
Going by the status of Bone and Joints hospital, after the season’s first snowfall the number of fracture cases are up by almost 30% and the figures are likely to increase further seeing the weather, they say.
Snow blanketed mountains, plains and white outlined trees especially Chinars may sound good to ears and are the usual clich?d lines used to describe the beauty of winter in Kashmir. It is beautiful to visualize as well but for its native’s winter brings a different experience. It is the worst season in the year, they say. Because of the facilities available in here, locals refer to winter as the ugliest season.
Living under these snow blankets has never been exciting for Kashmiris.
Heavy or light, the snowflakes cut the three regions, Ladakh, Kashmir and Jammu, from each other.
Many of the vehicles carrying both passengers as well as goods get stranded on the Srinagar Jammu highway for days or even weeks. As Kashmir does not produce ample quality of goods for itself, it gets all essentials from Jammu, Punjab and other states of India, so the closure of the highway ceases the supply of essential as well. The blockage makes people to suffer, sometimes Kashmir falls short of even baby foods also.