The Lake of Dreams

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The Lake of Dreams

A rare photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru at the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Sati Sahni, who shot this photograph, kept his promise to Nehru not to publish any of the candid photos he shot of him during his lifetime. After Nehru’s death, Sahni extended the embargo to his own lifetime. Sahni’s family published Nehru’s Kashmir, a book based on those photographs, only later

A rare photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru at the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Sati Sahni, who shot this photograph, kept his promise to Nehru not to publish any of the candid photos he shot of him during his lifetime. After Nehru’s death, Sahni extended the embargo to his own lifetime. Sahni’s family published Nehru’s Kashmir, a book based on those photographs, only later

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