Srinagar, August 08: It is commerce by night — the milkman knocks at your door at around 4 AM, the vegetable seller follows; the bakery is open from 2.30 AM till sunrise and petrol pumps from midnight for a few hours.
This is how days and days of curfew and violence on the streets of this city and some other urban areas of the Kashmir Valley has changed the life of its citizens. Night has become day.
Life has come to a standstill; yet life has to go on.
Thus traders as well as citizens have invented ways of survival out of necessity. Call it ingenuity of Kashmiris.
The Valley depends on import of most essential commodities from the plains. Be it petroleum products, livestock, medicines and even vegetables. Some of these items are trickling through from Jammu, but distribution is a problem.
–PTI