Even as the curb, Sept. 14 -- stricken campuses have resumed their classwork in Kashmir, those living on mountains and meadows are still following the rugged routine that kept them going in the last three lockdown years.

By Umer Ahmad

AT the break of day, Mohammad Ramzan comes out on a mountain mission.

Rambling through a nippy air of peaks dotted with pines and shacks, the athletic man scales heights with an effortless ease, and starts knocking on the tribal doors for taking their children out.

Soon trailed by an army of 'early birds'-some smiling, some sulking over the snapped sleep-the seasonal school teacher assembles them in the meadow atop mountains for the open-air classes.

Since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019 an...