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Lal Chowk

Shikha submitted this entry 11 years ago

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Red Square reference - interesting !
Sheetal wrote this 5 years ago
This is the center of the Srinagar city.
According to Wikipedia - Lal Chowk is a city square in Srinagar in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. Lal Chowk was named so by Left-wing activists inspired by the Russian Revolution as they fought Maharaja Hari Singh.It is a traditional place for political meetings with Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, Sheikh Abdullah, Kashmir's first premier and various other Kashmiri leaders having addressed people from it.
Samir wrote this 11 years ago


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