11 Photos The World Needs To See To Know How Beautiful Jammu & Kashmir Really Is

    And we're not even talking about the scenery.

    1. When this mosque welcomed Hindus and Sikhs to take shelter after devastating floods rocked the state.

    2. When a company provided free sanitary pads to women who were stranded after the floods.

    3. When one of seven Hindu households in a village celebrated a wedding and hundreds of Muslims gathered to congratulate them.

    4. When the Muslim residents of Tral helped travelling Hindu pandits in arranging a pooja.

    5. When a 30-year-old teacher, caught in the floods, refused to leave behind his autistic students and swim to safety.

    6. When an all girls band defied the odds to participate in a battle of the bands, and won the competition too.

    7. When Kashmiri Muslims helped in performing the last rites of a Hindu priest.

    8. When Krishno Devi proudly displayed her ink mark after having cast her vote in an election, despite being over 80 years of age.

    9. When Kashmiris rescued a young hangul deer, an endangered species, from a pack of stray dogs and nursed it back to health.

    10. When this young girl adorably tried to cling on to her mother, even in the middle of prayer.

    11. And when these men shared a quiet moment after attending a special prayer, having lost their families during a devastating earthquake in 2005.

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