Srinagar, Sept. 17 -- The very air of Kashmir, once alive with the fragrance of saffron and the delicate music of rivers in motion, now languishes under the oppressive weight of despair. This is a land where mountains weep openly, and its valleys resonate with the muted cries of a population deeply aggrieved. For decades untold, Kashmir has remained a canvas awash in suffering, bearing silent witness to the detachment of those entrusted with its protection. The recent, unsettling episodes of putrescent meat finding its way to plates and restrictive road blockades manifest but a few surface symptoms of a more entrenched malaise that now imperils this earthly paradise.Yet, within its somnolent apathy, the governing body rouses only when cri...