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.