Srinagar, July 29 -- It was Kashmir's own version of Elon Musk who grabbed everyone's attention this week, and this time the buzz wasn't about cars.

Bilal Ahmed Mir, a math teacher from Srinagar, built a solar-powered bike with a colleague, and the internet ran with it.

Tea shops talked about it, families debated it over dinner, and social media couldn't stop sharing it.

That reaction tells us something bigger than one bike.

Kashmir has never lacked brains. The classrooms turn out sharp students, dedicated teachers, and exam results that would make any state proud.

What Kashmir has lacked is the bridge between the classroom and the real world, the place where a formula on a blackboard becomes a working machine.

Bilal built that brid...