Many of Srinagar's buildings are scarred by fire. The one in the photos above was just across the narrow street from a completely burnt building. All over the city there are signs of fire, damaged roofs and broken panes of glass on the third and fourth floors of otherwise very handsome brick buildings. The loss of it's tourist industry in the early eighties devastated the city's economy. Some people moved away and just abandoned their property. Other owners just use the floors that are still habitable, like my favorite bakery.. Business from Indian tourists is slowly recovering but foreigners are still staying away. There is high unemployment for educated young Kashmiri's and not much money in the private sector for infrastructure repair. Srinagar makes me think of a still beautiful woman with broken grimy nails and hands stained and scarred from digging her food out of the ground.