On an unusually warm day, Kashmir looked cold — long deserted streets and quiet neighbourhoods heavily manned by men in olive green fatigues, with very few civilians walking through with sullen and shocked faces.
Sixty-nine years after it became a state with a special status in the India Republic in 1950, J&K on Monday was stripped of all constitutional privileges that it had enjoyed for seven decades. “This is the biggest injustice to us. New Delhi has snatched away our identity,” two youths loitering around in the government residential area of Jawahar Nagar told TOI. “There will be a response to this tomorrow morning once people understand what has happened,” one of them warned. However, several Kashmiris hurrayed quietly in their drawing rooms and offices.
 

On an unusually warm day, Kashmir looked cold — long deserted streets and quiet neighbourhoods heavily manned by men in olive green fatigues, with very few civilians walking through with sullen and shocked faces.
Sixty-nine years after it became a state with a special status in the India Republic in 1950, J&K on Monday was stripped of all constitutional privileges that it had enjoyed for seven decades. “This is the biggest injustice to us. New Delhi has snatched away our identity,” two youths loitering around in the government residential area of Jawahar Nagar told TOI. “There will be a response to this tomorrow morning once people understand what has happened,” one of them warned. However, several Kashmiris hurrayed quietly in their drawing rooms and offices.