On June 25th, 2026, a deeply moving and urgent seminar titled “Protection of Natural Environment in J&K” was organized by a voluntary body of “Group of Concerned Citizens, J&K,here in Srinagar. As a cardiologist who has dedicated decades to studying the human heart—and as a proud Kashmiri whose soul belongs to these mountains—attending and contributing to this seminar felt less like an environmental briefing and more like diagnosing a patient close to my heart. In medicine, we know that you cannot look at an organ in isolation; heart relies on lungs, and lungs rely on the air we breathe. Similarly, the health of our people is fundamentally locked to the health of our valleys, wetlands, and rivers. While the rapid ecological changes we are witnessing are deeply concerning, I chose to look at this crisis not with despair, but as a crucial window for intervention. We have caught the symptoms though late but still in time to write a new, positive prescription for our home.

THE DIAGNOSIS How Environmental Stress Impacts Our Collective HealthFrom a medical perspective, the environmental challenges highlighted during the seminar directly map to public health patterns we see in........

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