Srinagar, Feb. 19 -- The first week of the Mohalla Initiative was a lesson in persistence. I spent my mornings at the bakery, not just to buy my own bread, but to encourage others. I saw the hesitation in my neighbours' eyes as they approached the counter. Some had remembered their cloth bags; many had not. "It is okay" I would say with a smile, handing a clean, reused plastic bag to a neighbour who had forgotten theirs. "Don't take a new one from Manzoor Sahib. Use this one again. It has many lives left in it." This was the second pillar of my plan: The Art of the Second Life. I realized that since plastic was nearly indestructible, they should treat it as a permanent resource rather than a disposable convenience. I set up a small point/...