In Valley, A Long Road Of Uncertainty tribuneindia.com

When the morning market — the only few shopping hours of the day in the past two months — was about to be set-up in Srinagar’s Bemina neighborhood, a group of youth burnt tires and asked shopkeepers to shut.
On Monday, the market in one of the largest neighborhood of Srinagar was deserted throughout the day. In the evening, a fruit vendor was the only one open in the market. “A few people came in the morning. Who knows who they were,” Gulzar, the fruit vendor, said.

In hushed tones, people guessed the three men who came in the morning to shut the morning market were militants or their sympathizers. The uncertainty, however, looms in the air as the daytime shutdown of businesses and public transport in Kashmir valley nears the completion of its second month. The shutdown, one of the longest in recent decades, has been largely spontaneous as no separatist group or leader has called for it as has been the tradition.