The mohallas of our childhood.

The most famous Kashmiri Pandit mohalla. Named after the 16th-century bridge across the Jhelum, the area around Habba Kadal — together with Sheetalnath and Shivala — was the cultural and religious heart of the Kashmiri Pandit community. Most KP reform movements, libraries, schools, and temples of the early 20th century were centred here. Today only a handful of KP families remain in the lanes of Habba Kadal — but the mohalla is alive in our family stories, our cookbooks, and our marriages still routinely arranged 'somebody from Habba Kadal'.

One of Srinagar's oldest neighbourhoods. Carved wooden windows lean over narrow streets that once hummed with Kashmiri Pandit shopkeepers, schoolteachers, pandits, and merchants. Many KP families remember Rainawari as the address on the school certificate of their grandfather — and many a wedding card sent before 1990 began with 'Rainawari, Srinagar'.

A 20th-century Kashmiri Pandit neighbourhood that grew up around the new colonies of the Dogra and post-Independence eras. More planned, more bureaucratic-class, more 'modern' than the old city. Doctors, lawyers, professors, civil servants. Many of the Kashmiri Pandits now in Delhi, Bombay, Pune, and abroad were born in Karan Nagar.

A predominantly Kashmiri Pandit mohalla on the river. Quiet, slightly removed from the bustle of Habba Kadal. The Vichar Nag temple at Chattabal — one of Srinagar's oldest functional Hindu shrines — gave the neighbourhood its devotional anchor.

An old mixed neighbourhood with significant Kashmiri Pandit population. Site of the Sheetalnath Mandir — a major 19th-century KP temple complex that hosted the Yuvak Sabha, the Kashmiri Pandit reformist organisation that shaped early 20th-century community life.

A post-1947 colony where many Kashmiri Pandit families settled in the second half of the 20th century. Concrete houses, gardens, a Sunday-bazaar feel. The mohalla many KP children of the 1970s and 80s remember as 'home' before 1990 changed everything.

Adjacent to Habba Kadal — the religious-cultural triangle. The Sheetalnath temple complex was, before 1990, the working address of the Kashmiri Pandit Sabha and the centre of community discourse. Iqwat is documenting the surviving photographs and oral histories of this triangle.

A small, ancient KP neighbourhood organised around the Vichar Nag spring and temple. Many Kashmiri Pandit families have ancestral homes around Vichar Nag — and the few that remain in Srinagar today often live in this lane.