Although visitors have started to return in small numbers, the town of Pahalgam, which is in Indian-administered Kashmir, has a sense of silent desolation one week after a catastrophic militant strike near the mountain resort that killed 26 people.
There are brief indications of life returning to the main high street, which was deserted by tourists last week, with stores closed and hotels totally deserted.
The “Switzerland of India” is a mountain-top meadow three miles (5 km) from Pahalgam, where militants opened fire on tourists last Tuesday.
One of the bloodiest attacks in recent memory, it devastated the lives of numerous families and incited enormous ire in India.
