Festival shoppers throng the market at Saribazar Bhaderwah on the eve Eid-ul-Azha. / Photo feature by Mansoor Qadir
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DIAMOND CROP SAFFRON/ Photo feature by Mansoor Qadir
Girls seen busy in removing red carpel from the saffron flowers.The saffron flowers bloom in the month of October and November every year in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. These flowers are plucked early in the morning before sunshine and then stored properly . The three red carpel flowers are called saffron, where as three yellow carpel flowers are called safranin or Patti in local language. After storing for two or three days the red and yellow carpel are removed from the flowers and dried in the autumn sunshine. The saffron is then separated in three varieties–mongra, turla and lachha. While as mongra is the red part trimmed from the white stem, turla forms the white stem and lacha is the whole stem along with red carpel dried together without arranging them is called lachha.Mongra is the best type of saffron with local market rate two thousands per 10gm on season and some times goes up to 5 thousands when the crop yield is low. ...
A BRAVEHEART REMEMBERED
SRINAGAR: In a solemn and poignant ceremony held at the Badami Bagh Cantonment, office bearers of the Public Relations Office of Ministry of Defence and select media persons paid floral tributes to the memory of Major P Purushottam and his comrades who attained martyrdom in a fidayeen attack on this day in 1999, twelve years ago.
