Kashmir is under an indefinite curfew, the communications are under a clampdown including
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What’s it like to live in Kashmir?
Iron Fist in Rural Kashmir
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A first-person account of life in Srinagar after India imposed curfew and a communications lockdown.
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Who speaks for the silenced Kashmiris? Mehrunnisa Wani writes on the challenges that Kashimiri Diaspora faces against an increasingly Hindu nationalist Indian expatriates.
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Kashmir families demand answers for ‘unaccounted for’ deaths
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At Least 2,300 People Have Been Detained During the Lockdown in Kashmir Read Here
Sense of fear deepens as Indian politicians stoke misogyny with talk of freedom to marry ‘white-skinned’ Kashmiri women.
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A Kashmiri Novelist on a State Under Siege. Mirza Waheed speaks to the New Yorker on the military siege in Kashmir.
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‘It’s an act of hope’: the fairytale rise of the Real Kashmir football team
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What do families in Kashmir do under lockdown when they have run out of food? Writer Mirza Waheed remembers his teenage years.
Pharmacists can’t restock medicines; workers aren’t being paid. But the government still loves to block the internet for “peace and tranquillity.”
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“In every village we visited, we found that scores of young men have been illegally detained by the police without any reason,” the team said.
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Diary of a Kashmir correspondent: When Jammu and Kashmir’s geography became history
Inside Kashmir’s lockdown: BBC reports from the ground
Two telephone lines were opened Thursday, prompting locals, mostly women, to line up at the DC office in Srinagar to call children staying outside J&K. Azaan Javaid reports.
The careful act of paying respects to kin while under curfew in Kashmir. Writer Niya Shahdad talks about life under curfew in 2016
Hilal Mir talks about the preparation for the inevitable, days before Kashmir was put under the indefinite curfew
Kashmiris queue at a government office to use phone amid week-long clampdown that has seen communication lines cut off.
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Just let me speak to my family, Maroosha Muzzafar speaks about not being able to talk to her family.
I may have never ever felt so shut out and so shut down…Not during the Tahrir Square uprising in Cairo. Not even during the darkest I have witnessed in Kashmir over the past decades. Veteran Indian Journalist Sankarshan Thakur writes on what he witnessed in Kashmir.
Sanna Wani writes on what she saw while in Kashmir for the TIME.
A cancer patient struggles to reach hospital for chemo, others can’t get home.
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The job of a journalist is to tell the story of the people. But the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, now a Union Territory, is such that every journalist here has become a story themselves.
Here’s what has happened until now:
History tells us the Kashmir crisis will be particularly dangerous for women – so why aren’t we talking about it?
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New Delhi’s Demographic Designs in Kashmir. Hindu nationalists have long wanted to reshape the region. Now they are getting their chance. Idris Bhat writes.
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The Indian Occupation of Kashmir Is Only Getting Worse. A report from inside Kashmir, where Indian authorities have created an open-air prison with millions captive.
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I pray that when I go home next, I do not visit my parents in a colony of the Hindu nationalist empire. Mirza Waheed talks about India’s ‘illegal power grab’ in Kashmir which is turning it into a ‘colony.’
Read on Guardian
The Indian government has confined about seven million Kashmiris to their homes and imposed a complete communications blackout. Author Arundhati Roy writes on Kashmir
The latest crisis in under 600 words
India marks Independence Day with its secular, postcolonial image in tatters
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Among Kashmiri Muslims, India is a foreign country and a hostile enemy. The latest decrees have provoked sorrow, despair, and anger.
Read on the Nation
Inside Kashmir, Cut Off From the World: ‘A Living Hell’ of Anger and Fear. The New York Times reports from the ground
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Why was Kashmir special? Historian Andrew Whitehead writes
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Disinherited and Disempowered, Kashmiris Have No Option but to Resist. Kashmiri Anthropologist Mohamad Junaid writes.
Read on the Globe Post
One of the world’s most sensitive regions is in the midst of a crisis and could be on the verge of conflict, but the world may not find out what’s happening there until it’s too late.
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Senior Kashmir reporter Basharat Masood reports from Sopore, a hotbed of rebels.
Read on the Indian Express
This was a very Indian coup, but one with a global context.
Read on the Observer
Fear, panic grips residents in the heavily militarised zone on both sides of the de facto Kashmir border.
An unprecedented security lockdown amid a near-total communications blackout entered a fourth day Thursday, forcing some news organizations to hand-carry dispatches out of the region.
The Indian government’s decision to revoke the semiautonomous status of Kashmir, accompanied by a huge security clampdown, is dangerous and wrong. Bloodshed is all but certain, and tension with Pakistan will soar.
“It’s a majoritarian India trampling down on the rights and freedoms of Kashmiris,” he said. “It’s a monumental and historic disaster.”
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Yet no matter what happens in the fallout, it is the Kashmiris who, as always, will continue to suffer most.
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They want to erase us’: the Kashmiri suburb defying Indian control
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Indian-controlled Kashmir was in lockdown with thousands of new troops deployed into the already heavily militarized region as New Delhi announced changes to the way the territory is administered.
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What India’s move means for Kashmiri politicians.
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Kashmiri bodies have always been used as a battleground for Indian forces in the region and the latest move from India comes with the looming threat of further violations.
India Moves to Strip Kashmir of Autonomy, Potentially Setting Up Conflict in Disputed Territory
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How far is Indian-run Kashmir from normalcy?
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The brutal abolition of the region’s special status is another stage in the prime minister’s Hindu nationalist project
How India’s Kashmir crackdown provoked fear for region’s future
India’s settler-colonial project in Kashmir takes a disturbing turn
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The Indian government’s measures to bring Kashmir under direct rule by New Delhi attempts to erase the Kashmiri political identity and will inflame an already simmering resistance.
For India’s new rulers, Muslim-majority Kashmir was the perfect place to announce the rise of India’s new muscular nationalism and unabashed majoritarianism.
Subjugating an entire people wasn’t enough for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
‘We may have to shut down permanently’: Online Media In Kashmir Has Come to a Grinding Halt by Zafar Aafaq
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Photo-essays
Unseen Kashmir: A photographic witness
Captured by Adil Abass
Influencers and Politicians on the situation in Kashmir:
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Listen to authors Mirza Waheed and Victoria Schofield talking about Kashmir
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