A Kashmiri boatman rows his boat through the waters of Dal Lake during the early morning in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

People throng Nishat Garden as the sun sets over Kashmir's Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A man rows a boat on the Dal Lake as a woman holds an umbrella during snowfall in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A man rows a small boat on the waters of Dal Lake on a sunny day in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri family sits on a jetty on the banks of the Dal lake as the sun sets in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri man rows his boat in the waters of the Dal Lake on a cold winter evening in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri boatman rows a boat on the interior waters of Dal lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri fisherman throws a net to catch fish as two others retrieve their nets from Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri woman walks on a footbridge in the interior of Dal Lake during autumn in Srinagar. Footbridges and small boats are the only link between the shore and people residing in the interior of Dal Lake, the region's main tourist attraction. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Participants carrying flags are reflected in the waters of Dal Lake during the opening ceremony of "Jashan-e-Dal" in Srinagar. The picture is rotated 180 degrees clockwise. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri man rows a boat past fountains in the polluted waters of Dal Lake, in Srinagar. The lake has been polluted during decades of neglect and a separatist revolt. Dal Lake, the region's main tourist attraction which has drawn visitors from Mughal emperors to the Beatles star George Harrison, has shrunk from 25 sq km to 13 sq km since the 1980s, environmental campaigners say. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmiri men in boats manually collect weeds from the polluted waters of Dal Lake, covered by aquatic plants in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmiri men unload a boat from a horse cart near Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri woman rows a boat filled with lotus leaves on Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A waiter adjusts the curtains in a room of a houseboat in Srinagar. For nearly a century, hand-carved houseboats bobbing on a placid lake drew millions of visitors including George Harrison, businessman Nelson Rockefeller and actress Joan Fontaine to the stunningly beautiful Himalayan region of Kashmir. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri man rows a Shikara in front of a houseboat named "Buckingham Palace" on the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Indian tourists enjoy an evening on the deck of a houseboat in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A tourist enjoys water skiing on the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmiri vegetable vendors assemble at a floating market on Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmiri vegetable vendors assemble at a floating market in the interiors of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

People cross the old Nayidyar bridge over the extension of Dal Lake in the old part of Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri boatman selling traditional floor mats rows his boat on the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmiri vegetable vendors assemble at a floating market in the interiors of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Framed by the Zabarwan Hills, a Kashmiri man sits by Dal Lake on a sunny day, in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Danish Ismail/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A view of a defunct weed removing machine inside the Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashimiri fisherman catches fish in Dal Lake on a sunny day after nearly one week of rains in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmiri youth practice kayaking on the waters of Dal Lake during an autumn day in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmiri youth practice kayaking on the waters of Dal Lake during an autumn day in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

Kashmir's holiest shrine Hazratbal is seen illuminated from Dal Lake on the eve of Eid-e-Milad in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015

A Kashmiri fisherman rows a boat past houseboats on Dal Lake in Srinagar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/Files); Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 2, 2015