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Paddar Sapphire Mines Paddar's Struggle for Recognition as a Tourist Destination History of Paddar Needs Some Protein Chenab (Asikini): The River That Carries Stories The Arrow at Leondi My Experience of business in Paddar Ancient Social Engineering of Paddar Waiting for the Next Chwass Moment in Paddar Paddar Sapphire Mines Paddar's Struggle for Recognition as a Tourist Destination History of Paddar Needs Some Protein Chenab (Asikini): The River That Carries Stories The Arrow at Leondi My Experience of business in Paddar Ancient Social Engineering of Paddar Waiting for the Next Chwass Moment in Paddar

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A raw peacock-blue sapphire crystal on dark stone

Paddar Sapphire Mines

History · The blue that made the mines of Paddar famous.

An oval peacock-blue sapphire on dark velvet

Paddar Sapphire Mines

History · The colour the trade still calls peacock blue, the velvet hue of a Kashmir stone.

A painting of a high ridge with a gleam of blue in the rock

Paddar Sapphire Mines

History · The high ground, painted. The working face sits far above the road.

Cut and rough peacock-blue sapphires on a wooden tray beside a brass scale

Paddar Sapphire Mines

History · Cut stones and rough, the two states in which Paddar sapphire has left the valley.

An oil painting of a raw peacock-blue sapphire on dark rock

Paddar Sapphire Mines

History · The stone, as a painter would set it down.

A still-life painting of three blue sapphires, a compass and a map

Paddar Sapphire Mines

History · A still life for the blue that left Paddar for other cities.

Four paddlers in a raft punching through whitewater in a canyon at blue hour

Paddar's Struggle for Recognition as a Tourist Destination

Tourism · The Chenab between Gulabgarh and Kundal, where Paddar's rafting zone was marked.

An ancient stone water fountain with six outlets, built into a masonry wall at Ungaie, Paddar

History of Paddar Needs Some Protein

History · Figure 1. Ancient water fountain, a naurn, at Ungaie, Paddar.

A carved stone plate at Ungaie with deity figures and two spoked wheels

History of Paddar Needs Some Protein

History · Figure 2. Stone carvings at Ungaie, Paddar.

Serpents carved into a rock face in Dharlang valley

History of Paddar Needs Some Protein

History · Figure 3. Images of Nagas carved on stone in Dharlang valley. Photograph by Rablam Yogi.

Weathered upright stone pillars standing in a grassy slope at Sohal, Paddar

History of Paddar Needs Some Protein

History · Figure 4. Ancient stone pillars at Sohal, Paddar.

A round iron railing enclosing a deep stone pit at Sohal, Paddar

History of Paddar Needs Some Protein

History · Figure 5. Kaal Khappar, fenced with iron railings, at Sohal, Paddar.

A folded page of birch bark covered in handwritten script, found at Tunkhail

History of Paddar Needs Some Protein

History · Figure 6. A bhojpatra page found at Tunkhail. Photograph by Tenzen Sambel.

A wooden loom with a red, black and cream blanket rolled on the beam

History of Paddar Needs Some Protein

History · Figure 7. A zand, the traditional loom used for making blankets in Paddar.

A dark river in a deep pine gorge at late light

Chenab (Asikini): The River That Carries Stories

Blogs · Dark water in the mountains. Asikini, the old name, belongs to this river.

Two pale glacial rivers meeting in a high, misty Himalayan valley

Chenab (Asikini): The River That Carries Stories

Blogs · Two streams becoming one, the meeting remembered in the name Chandrabhaga.

A broad river through green fields at golden hour, with a wooden boat

Chenab (Asikini): The River That Carries Stories

Blogs · After the mountains, the river among the fields.

An earthen pot in a dark river under a thin moon, village lamps on the far bank

Chenab (Asikini): The River That Carries Stories

Blogs · The earthen pot the Sohni story leaves in the current.

Ashish Chouhan at an old wooden door in Leondi, with a hole in the panel behind him

The Arrow at Leondi

History · The door at Leondi. The hole in the wood is the mark the telling points to.

Snow peaks and a hillside village, with the heading My Experience of business in Paddar

My Experience of business in Paddar

Blogs · My Experience of business in Paddar.

Old leather history books and an open atlas in a shaft of library light

Ancient Social Engineering of Paddar

History · The record of a valley that still keeps its stories by mouth.

A foggy mountain ridge with a lantern left on a rock at the switchback

Waiting for the Next Chwass Moment in Paddar

History · The long road into Paddar, still waiting for its next Chwass.