<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9026134102896044"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> I was still shaken by my earlier encounter with the CRPF men, who wanted me to delete the visuals of the shutdown in downtown Srinagar from my mobile phone, as I made my way back to the guest house that night. A businessman friend had invited me to join his family for dinner that night. At the dinner table, I shared my experience with them. Pat came a response from my friend, “And you thought we Kashmiris cooked up stories of CRPF’s brutalities. What do you have to say now?” It was clear from my conversation that 15 days of complete shutdown in the valley had left even this otherwise affluent family adversely impacted. Modest  dum aloo  and  daal    (lentils) had replaced the famous Kashmiri multi-course  wazwan.  My host apologised politely as ...