"Sometimes, I thought of dragging them [CRPF personnel] out of the campus when they follow us if we visit inside. Their actions and treatment is forcing us to take negative steps.”
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"Sometimes, I thought of dragging them [CRPF personnel] out of the campus when they follow us if we visit inside. Their actions and treatment is forcing us to take negative steps.”
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“From 2008 till now, farmers who are dependent on this economy find themselves in darkness. Our hopes shattered when we did not receive the expected amount from our annual production.”
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A midnight rumour – that came true at dawn on 5 August 2019 – knocked on the doors of the Baitul Banat Hostel in Srinagar, a girl’s orphanage under the Jammu and Kashmir Yateem Trust (JKYT), striking a collective gasp of shock. One girl among the wide-eyed faces of the orphans stood up and pleaded, “Please take […]
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"This is the mercy of the government – it’s their gift for us. They made us drink dirty water; Mehraj fell ill because of it.”
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"I saw the lay-offs coming in the shutdown as the operations of Internet-based businesses lost its mode of survival - Internet.”
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Every wedding season, at an average, Shabnam Subhan would earn about 60-70 thousand in six months and would rely on it for the rest of the year. This season, she hasn’t earned even 10 per cent of it.
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“At first, I was really ashamed. But now, I have accepted that I’m doing this. I'm begging. It is for my children.”
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On the outskirts of downtown Srinagar, in Zaldagar, Waseem Ahmad Balla’s family of five lives in one room and a kitchen. Sitting at the doorway of his house, cleaning a bowl of red-chili powder, he wonders, “If the shutdown continues, how long will we sustain?” Since the abrogation of the Article 370 and Article 35A […]
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Inside the wrecked education setup, The Kashmir Walla report on children's uncertain future, distressed minds, and broken dreams in Kashmir.
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For the last hundred days, Mohammad Nasir, 34, a paper machie artist from Srinagar’s Lal Bazar area has been in a conundrum – his concerns stem from the fact that he has not been able to fulfill the demands of his customers, living inside and outside Jammu and Kashmir (J-K), and abroad. He is the […]
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Ifshana Maqbool, 29, would daily open her laptop – neatly placed in a corner of her room in Natipora, Srinagar – and scroll through her months-old research work in the field of Electronics and Communication (E-C) Department [under Information Technology], and shut it. Spending the rest of the day, without any concrete idea, Ms. Maqbool, […]
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September had just started. Mohammad Syed, 51, an apple-grower from Deeri area of Pulwama, south Kashmir, was despondent; Kuloo (a type of apple) had ripened on his about 5 kanal orchard and he couldn’t find any buyer or a transport facility to trade his product. “I dumped them into a nearby stream,” he said. “They […]
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On the morning of 5 August, Dr. Ali Mohammad Mir, 48, realized that his decades-old dream had come true. When he saw Union Home Minister Amit Shah on television, he convinced himself that the moment of the “New Kashmir”, which he had waited since the day he joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in March 1995, […]
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