boatman

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Oo Oo had to retire from his job as a boatman when he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed.

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Many worked as labourers on farms or at the local iron works with others having jobs including as laundry women, boatmen - and one was a local postman.

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Despite his pleas, the boatman refused to allow Fayaz to bring the baby's body with them.

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"We've got damselflies and dragonflies, little water boatmen, whirligig beetles, water scorpions and because of all of them, we get all the birds that feed off them," he says.

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The famous Dal Lake, as seen in the picture above, and other water bodies in Kashmir have partially frozen, making it hard for boatmen to ferry passengers and tourists.

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