Listen! My name is Srinagar. I am as old as some of the world famous civilizations. It may probably surprise you that I am older than Constantinople, the present day Istanbul. But many a time I feel ashamed of myself as I feel I was always given a step-motherly treatment by all the rulers and regimes. In ancient times, I was captured and ruled by many dynasties, be it the Gonanda Dynasty, Maurya Dynasty, Karkota Dynasty, Utpala Dynasty, Lohara Dynasty, Shah Mir Dynasty, Chak Dynasty, Mughals, Afghans, Sikhs, Dogras, and now in modern times by different political parties like Congress, Janta Party, National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party and today as well, many powers would be in ambush to capture me by hook or crook. 

You know, I have seen many phases, good and bad, in my development yet my formative years were full of zeal and zest, always hoping that the next rule will be better for me but, believe me, I am exhausted now as things are getting worse day by day, even in this so called post modern and artificial intelligence age. 

Time and again new schemes and programmes are framed in my name but often they are not materialised. Sometimes, when a new rule gets established, it pin points earlier loopholes and pitfalls and then promises that this time things........

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