Kashmir’s Weddings: All Glitter, Then Litter

Srinagar, Sep 20: Kashmir’s increasingly elaborate wedding celebrations are leaving behind more than memories and photographs, with discarded flowers, food, plastic, thermocol and decorative material adding to the Valley’s growing solid-waste challenge. From elaborate stage decorations and floral entrances to table arrangements, bouquets and car decorations, flowers have become an integral part of weddings across Kashmir. But once the celebrations end, large quantities of floral material are rem