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Snow In January Yawar Hussain A view of Lal Chowk during heavy snowfall, in Srinagar, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur As the year’s first snowfall draped Kashmir, beginning on January 2, life came to a standstill with people and the administration both choosing to stay homes till sunshine brought back the sheen to the streets. The people reacted to the snowfall as per their own requirements: tourists were happy that they will have fun; Harisa-makers were excited that they will have better footfalls; workers in PDD, SMC, and the PHE had their share of the crisis in managing the impact of the mess. People, by and large, were tense because snow, especially a heavier fall, seriously compromises the services. That was perhaps why, amidst a congratulatory campaign on social media, people responded in a way as if a calamity had hit Kashmir. ....