Srinagar, April 1 -- On the last day of March, when winter still lingers in the bones of the valley and spring hesitates like a thought not yet spoken, S. Ahad walks quietly toward the end of a long, unbroken road. Not an ending, really-just a turning of time that refuses to call itself final. On 31/03/26, he attains superannuation as Headmaster at PM SHRI BHS Pohrupeth, leaving behind not a vacancy, but an echo-soft, persistent, unwilling to fade. Some men retire. Others remain-stitched into walls, carried in corridors, remembered in the way a place learns to breathe. S. Ahad belongs to the latter kind. The kind that does not depart, even in departure.There was always something intentional about him. The way he spoke-never hurried, never...