A year after Indian Government abrogated the Article 370 and the state of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh were bifurcated into Union Territories, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened its first outlet in Srinagar.
KFC had two outlets in Jammu, this was the first one that opened up in Srinagar.
A stark contrast from what felt like posed pictures of normalcy when NSA Ajit Doval had turned up to discuss politics with locals last year over a plate of biryani, the outlet seemed to be jampacked even amid a coronavirus crisis.
However, there seems to be no suggestion that the Srinagar outlet In some ways it was reminiscent of the first McDonald’s that opened in Moscow in 1990, signalling the triumph of capitalism over communism in the most capitalist way feasible – gluttony.