shikaras

Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency Boatmen row traditional wooden vessels called 'shikaras' on Srinagar's lakes, which attract visitors throughout the year.

Life in Kashmir 2011

It also mentions "shikaras" without a definition: perhaps these are wireless nodes that move around the lake?

Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Traditional Kashmiri boats, or shikaras, carried tourists in Kashmir's famed Dal lake in Srinagar, Oct. 1.

Autumn in Kashmir 2011

Earlier, the teams led by J&K Police presented a paddle past in well decorated shikaras before the audience.

J&K has great potential in adventure sports 2009

A placid sheet of still water, its surface only broken here and there by the silvery trails of rippled wake left by the darting shikaras or slow-moving market boats, lay before us, shining in the crystal-clear atmosphere.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

In the first place, he had appropriated the only two shikaras he could find, and our baggage was already being stowed in them; secondly, he had discovered both Juma and Ismala, our Mangis, who reported the doungas moored below Parana Chaum, about four miles away over the flooded fields.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

Light shikaras darted in and out, making up for want of volume in their song by the piercing shrillness of their utterances.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

Jammu and Kashmir is the theme State and its presence is visible all over the place, from the colourful shikaras to the food stall for Wazwan delicacies.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009

The breathtaking Dal Lake, majestic mountains encircling the vale, sky touching chinars lining each side of the boulevard, exotic houseboats and romantic shikaras were captured in their pristine beauty on camera by ace cinematographer Taru Dutt, as he filmed the director's first outing in Eastman color.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009