Srinagar, April 22 -- As urban pressure, digital life, and economic stress transform Srinagar, Kashmir's traditional neighbourhood bonds face a deep social decline.

People in Srinagar once measured community through everyday interaction. A wedding belonged to an entire mohalla. Funeral gatherings filled lanes before dawn. Children moved freely between homes, watched by grandparents sitting outside bakeries and local shops.

Every neighbourhood functioned like a shared social system where people knew who needed help, who fell sick, and who struggled financially.

That culture now feels increasingly distant.

Modern Kashmir has entered a phase of rapid urban expansion without a matching social vision. Concrete colonies continue to replace ...