Thursday had been a particularly hot day in Srinagar. The same evening by 7.15 pm, within a matter of seconds, a festive and bustling Residency Road in Srinagar had turned into a bloody crime scene. The next day, Srinagar woke up to a cold and overcast sky. As I made my way to Kreeri in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, for senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari’s funeral, I recalled a common Kashmiri saying, “Kashmir ke mausum aur halaat ka koi bharosa nahi (The weather and situation in Kashmir cannot be trusted)”.
On Thursday, with two days to go for Eid, Residency Road was bustling with shoppers and roadside stalls. Being the holy month of Ramazan, by 6.45 pm, most shoppers on the road started to clear up and head home to break their fast.
