Srinagar, Aug. 25 -- Today marks six years of my father's demise and though it is said that time is a great healer, the void this loss has created still endures.By the time I reached an age where I could discern things, my father was serving in J&K police and we were leading a modest but content life. I found my father to be an affable person who never expressed any complaints about life having treated him unfairly and this made me assume that just like me, he too must have had a comfortable childhood. It was only later that I learned from my grandmother about the immense hardships he had faced while growing up. She told me that my grandfather's untimely death at a young age had put the onerous responsibility of looking after the entire f...