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[[Image:ShikaraIV2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Shikhara on [[Dal Lake]], [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu & Kashmir]], [[India]]. Photo by Paul La Porte. Http://laporte.uchicago.edu/india2.htm]]'''Shikaras''' are a type of wooden boat found on [[Dal Lake]], [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu & Kashmir]], [[India]]. Shikharas can seat half-a-dozen people, are paddle-driven. Like the Venetian gandolas, they are a cultural symbol of Kashmir. Some shikharas are still used for fishing, seaweed-harvesting, and transport in the deeper parts of Dal Lake, while most are covered with tarpaulins and are used by tourists. Some are used as floating homes by poor people<ref>{{cite web

| author=Kevin Sites

[[Image:ShikaraIV2.jpg|thumb|left|400px|Shikhara on [[Dal Lake]], [[Srinagar]], [[Jammu & Kashmir]], [[India]]. Photo by Paul La Porte. Http://laporte.uchicago.edu/india2.htm]]

| year=2006

| title=Boat People, Unable to afford homes on land, the poorest of Kashmir’s poor live on open fishing boats, where life is always unsteady.

| publisher=Yahoo! News

| accessdate=2006-06-06

| url=http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs5224

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