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Hazratbal Shrine: When our turn comes to take a ride in a chopper, we see most roads deserted from above. The road outside the Hazratbal shrine is deserted except for two men and a bike. The arterial Maulana Azad road is empty, too. But in the afternoon, these
restrictions are lifted partially from Srinagar city (Photos by Ashish Sharma)

People pass a barbed wire check post in Srinagar

Paramilitary forces checking an ambulance during the curfew in Srinagar

Curfew in Maisuma, Srinagar

Curfew in Srinagar

Maisuma, Srinagar: A girl, wearing bright festive clothes, appears with her gang of children. She is singing, ‘Aankh maare O ladki aankh mare,’ from a film made much before she must have been born. She asks a woman journalist standing nearby to remove her shades and when she does, exclaims dramatically: “Oh my God!” Her gang laughs. Even the CRPF personnel cannot resist a smile

Site of Pulwama Attack: The Major points at the fresh tarmac laid at the spot where a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a convoy of 78 trucks carrying CRPF personnel on February 14. “The impact was so severe that four bodies were flung across the double road on to a set of communication towers,” he says

Army patrolling the street in Pulwama

A boy riding his cycle during curfew in Srinagar

Dal Lake, Srinagar: A police officer, an old friend, nods his head and says: “I don’t know what happened to us. It is as if a few men turned mad and to escape being different from them, the rest of us drank the mad waters of an imaginary river flowing through Srinagar.”

The Gandhis vs The Congress

Hazratbal Shrine: When our turn comes to take a ride in a chopper, we see most roads deserted from above. The road outside the Hazratbal shrine is deserted except for two men and a bike. The arterial Maulana Azad road is empty, too. But in the afternoon, these restrictions are lifted partially from Srinagar city (Photos by Ashish Sharma)