While the rest of India sleeps, the night in the submerged city of Srinagar is interminably long. It is before first light that a group of soldiers boards trucks, determined to parlay every working hour into attempts to rescue stranded people, deliver food and water to others. For about a 15-minute drive, the land is dry. And then the trucks must push their way in the grey fog through several treacherous feet of water, the swampy remnants of the floods that assaulted the city with eviscerating force.
