At Baba Dawood Khaki bridge, one of the many connectors between Srinagar’s old city and Civil Lines areas, smoke from burning tyres curled into the air on Tuesday afternoon —- Day 18 of the ongoing unrest. Tuesday was a litmus test to know the mood of residents of dozens of volatile neighbourhoods of the old city, aka the Downtown, as the state government lifted curfew for the first time here in the last 18 days since the unrest began. The separatists had also called for a rare relaxation in the…
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