Srinagar, May 19 -- In the midst of the scorching heatwave in the Kashmir Valley-a South Kashmir village turns into the focal point of an unusual combination of tradition, community, and environmental protection. Each year, on one Sunday in mid-May, Panzath villagers unite at the holy Panzthnag spring and its streams, not only to fish, but to purify and rejoice at the age-old relationship with the environment. This is the Panzath Fish-cum-Dredging Festival - a festival that embodies environmental ethics through communal participation.Even before sustainability became a catchword worldwide, the people of Panzath knew and did it the way it is supposed to be done. The Panzthnag spring, the source of freshwater supplying and irrigating the su...