In her mid-twenties, Salma Jan, a domestic help in Srinagar, wanted to go to her home in Yusmarg on January 20. She reached Chrar e Sharief bus yard around noon. She knew she had to walk the distance of around 17 km so she could reach her home.
But she was disappointed when one shopkeeper told her to avoid going to Yusmarg. “It has snowed more than five feet in the area,” he told her.
She also noticed that no vehicle was going to Yusmarg.“The snow was not removed from the roads. I was mentally prepared to walk the distance but as the shopkeeper, who is known to my father, asked me to avoid it, I was left with no option.”
The family, where she works and stays had traveled to Delhi on the same day. “It snowed heavily this year so I also had an idea that it must be more in Yusmarg. I was trying to call my family but all of their phones were switched off,” she said. “All of our relatives live in the same area so I had no other place to go”.
Then suddenly an idea struck her mind and she called one of her previous employer, who extended a helping hand and agreed to keep her at their home.
It was after three days that she managed to contact her family.“Can you believe instead of scolding me they appreciated my decision. They told me the snow was of my height and my father had to dig a tunnel through the snow to reach out to our domestic animals,” she said.
This winter was the harshest in the last 30 years, with Central Kashmir experiencing the coldest January!
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Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country that was always in turmoil and one of the worst targets of the Great Game suffered immensely throughout, especially in the last 40 years, Masood Hussain writes
FINGERS CROSSED
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
Parliamentary Committee In Srinagar
The visiting 28-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have had detailed interactions with top civil administration and discussed developmental scenario and people’s welfare measures in Jammu and Kashmir. It is on a 4-day visit. Congress leader and MP Anand Sharma is heading the committee.
MUSIC IN MUD HOUSE
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in the last few years
THE KABUL SPILLOVER?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics, for the time being, writes Riyaz Wani
Durga Bhawan At Katra
To enhancing facilities for the convenience of the Vaishno Devi pilgrims, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha laid the foundation for the Durga Bhawan, a high utility pilgrim-centric facility worth Rs 24.4 crore. The facility will accommodate 4000 pilgrims.
Women Empowerment
In the first, 480 talented girls from Jammu and Kashmir were included in the degree and diploma courses of the Pragati Scholarship. Jammu and Kashmir has also got nine scholarships under the Saksham Scheme for Persons with Disabilities.
‘SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT IS THE OUTCOME OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN KASHMIR STAND-OFF'
Foreign policy expert and editor of HardNews magazine, Sanjay Kapoor believes that Taliban 2.0 has more legitimacy unlike in the past as it had signed a deal with the US and negotiated with other countries of the region, but the final verdict can be passed only after it manages ticklish issues involving half of its population, the women
Boredom Is Creative?
Getting bored is not as boring as it gets, writes Azra Hussain
LG In Bangus
Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Bungus Awaam Mela amidst grand arrangements for village games, exhilarating local performances, and other activities to celebrate the 75th year of Independence.
