Srinagar, Jan. 20 -- I have spent much of my professional life around plans studying them, formulating them, defending them, and, at times, questioning their very relevance. Yet, whenever I stepped out of the realms of planning, into the streets of Srinagar or Jammu, for that matter in any other of the town of the J&K, I am reminded of an uncomfortable truth that our cities do not grow the way we plan them. They grow the way life demands, proliferation of activities and political compulsions sweeps away urbanism in complete disconnect and as result fail to adapt to the emerging urban challenges. Legacy and the Master Plans I do observe that Srinagar wakes up every morning along the Jhelum, in lanes too narrow for cars, drains openly pumpe...