Srinagar, Aug. 5 -- By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat

Ask anyone in Srinagar how the week went, and the complaint comes back almost on cue: there was no time.

Money got chased, careers got built, and children got left waiting on porches for parents who promised ten more minutes.

The confession repeats itself house after house, and it should trouble us more than it does.

Kashmiris now own more devices for measuring time than any generation before them, and somehow they command less of it.

Phones buzz with the hour, smartwatches vibrate alerts, dashboards glow, and microwaves blink. Some devices display the hour in cities half the globe away, as if underscoring how far behind the valley has fallen.

The irony sits there plainly: the more timepiec...