Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own ode celebrating an everyday object.’ Ode to The Kaangrri (everyday heating utensil-to beat the cold, used in Kashmir) O Kaangarri, O sweet Kaangarri' Thou empty cold Queen of Energy' Unique symbol of Kashmiri Identity Any Historian may relate thy graceful warmth ' But why art thou so cold and quiet "What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both" What Attic shape - under the arm you drove away fear and kept one warm' yet now a touch of sadness I feel Kangri O Kaangarri' How sweet Thou art' what sunny winters thou hast seen in snowy mountains clear streams, valleys green, I long for, have never been nor ...but no, will be One day we shall return - 'Karyo Manzar jigras jaye shamno maa e masha ni -Mere Watan' We will return to your heaven' O Kaangarri' Thou art silent in grief I know Your heart has shed all tears and so is dry But we shall not any...
