Three consecutive years of lockdown have crashed Kashmir’s tourism industry and houseboat owners are badly affected. The hundreds of houseboats, moored inside Srinagar’s Dal lake, have hosted tourists for nearly a century. The Kashmir Walla’s Umer Asif reports from inside Dal lake.
Story by Umer Asif. Edited by Asif Hamid.
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