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Kashmir has been under a tight security lockdown with a near complete communications blackout since August 5. On the same day, Amit Shah, the Minister of Home Affairs, moved a Bill in the Rajya Sabha seeking to split Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories - one comprising of Jammu and Kashmir regions and the other comprising Leh and Kargil, jointly Ladakh. This move also means that the State of Jammu and Kashmir would no longer be extended a special status, as guaranteed under Article ...
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After India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status in August of 2019, Nishita Trisal, a Kashmiri Anthropologist, wrote an op ed titled 'India must stop weaponising the pain of Kashmiri Pandits.' This article went viral overnight which meant that Nishita had a lot of reactions to deal with, and not all reactions were pleasant. But what this arti…
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"I am 47 years old and I have never experienced a situation like this in my life. I was around in the 90s, 92s, 96s and 97s. Not just that, even 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2016 had difficult situations, still tourists used to visit. Since the abrogation of Article 370, we have not seen tourists visiting the valley. The tourism sector is the backbone of K…
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"It's better now. We at least have network now, we have 2G," says Quratulain Rehbar, a Kashmiri journalist on how things have become marginally better as compared to the total communication clampdown last year, following revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status. The reasons cited by the government for abrogation of Article 370 and Article 3…
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121 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down The August 5th decision of the Indian government to abrogate Article 370 meant that a new political and legal system has been put into place in Kashmir. Does that mean existing laws before October 31st, specific to K…
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120 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down Having looked at situation in North Kashmir and South Kashmir, we will take a closer look at Central Kashmir in today's episode. The primary focus of this episode though will be to try and understand the long term ef…
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119 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down In the final episode on how North Kashmir has responded to the August 5 decision of the Indian government, we speak to Daanish Bin Nabi about the Sopore and Bandipora region. In this episode, we speak to residents of…
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116 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down In this segment of Voices from the Lockdown, where we are focussing on the situation in North Kashmir, we will speak to Daanish Bin Nabi about where things stand in the District of Kupwara. Kupwara is a District whic…
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115 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down In the last two episodes, we’ve discussed South Kashmir in detail. In today’s episode and in the episodes to come, we will be looking at the situation in the various districts of North Kashmir. We will be speaking to…
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114 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down In yesterday's episode, we spoke with Kaiser Andrabi about the situation in South Kashmir. We listened to interviews with families of those who've joined militant ranks. We also looked at the manner in which militanc…
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113 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down The Indian government announced on August 5 that Article 370 and Article 35 A will stand revoked as on October 31st. By then, more than one and a half lakh troops had been moved into the Valley. Kashmir witnessed a c…
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112 days of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down "There is no question of normalcy being restored in Kashmir. Because Kashmir is already functioning normally.” These were the words of Home Minster Amit Shah in the Parliament last week. Following this, the Valley wh…
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86th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down In today's episode, we speak to Sana Iltija, the daughter of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who fought a legal battle to meet her mother after she was taken into preventive detention. Mehbooba Mufti has been i…
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85th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. The Juvenile Justice Committee (JJC) of the Jammu & Kashmir High court, comprising of four judges, submitted a report to the Supreme Court on India which states that 144 minors aged between 9 years and 17 years were…
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84th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. It has been 84 days since the August 5 decision of the Indian government to revoke Article 370 and Article 35 A. In four days, the state of Jammu and Kashmir will cease to exist. This decision by the Indian governme…
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Episode 14 80th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down Since the 5th of August, the number of people arrested in Kashmir remains a mystery. The government has refused to put a number to it but Khurram Pervez of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society has put …
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Episode 13 79th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. It has been more than two months since August 5. It has been a week since Postpaid services were restored in Kashmir. But Kashmir is yet to see a day in these 79 days which signals that the valley is retu…
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Episode 12 78th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. In the weeks after August 5, where we saw a total communication clampdown in Kashmir, the groups which were majorly speaking against the lockdown and the revocation of Article 370 and Article 35A were Kas…
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Episode 11 77th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. After abrogating Article 370 and Article 35 A on August 5, the Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah declared the State of Jammu and Kashmir will be bifurcated into two Union Territories, one comprising Jamm…
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Episode 10 76th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. After the government decided to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35 A, the general perception has been that there is unequivocal jubilation in Ladakh and Jammu regions of the soon-to-be divided state, Jam…
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Episode 9 75th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. Sharifuddin Khan from Rajasthan, Sethi Kumar Sagar from Chattisgarh and Charanjeet Singh from Punjab have been shot dead in Kashmir in the span of one week. Sharif Khan was a trucker, Sethi Kumar was a bri…
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Episode 8 74th day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. The state of Jammu and Kashmir, now in its last two weeks, is home to a diverse set of people. The Gujjar and Bakarwal communities are the muslim nomadic tribes of this state, who have been waging their ow…
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Episode 7 73rd day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. In the previous episodes, we’ve spoken at length about the difficulties that Kashmir has been facing since the 5th of August. Be it because of the communication clampdown, or the regular curfews or non ava…
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Episode 6 72nd day of communication blockade since August 5, postpaid mobile services restored, internet and prepaid mobile services still down. Todays episode is split into two segments. In the first segment, Kashmiri journalists Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Javid Ahmad tell us how residents of Kashmir are responding to restoration of postpaid mobile s…
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Episode 5 71st day of communication blockade since August 5 We will be discussing something very important today, something which is crucial to a democratic process - how does one gauge the response of a people to a move by a government if the functioning of the fourth estate, which is supposed to remain representative of the voices of the people, …
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Episode 4 70th day of communication blockade since August 5 The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industries has estimated that the losses caused to the economy due to the lockdown, entering the 70th day today, has crossed Rs 5,000 crores. The worst affected sector is tourism, as the curfew and communication blockade, starting from August 5th arrived r…
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Episode 3 69th day of communication blockade since August 5 While the situation in Kashmir continues to be grim, neighbouring Ladakh is in the middle of a crisis of its own. Ladakh is made up of Leh, with a majority Buddhist population and Kargil, with a majority Muslim population. While the demand for Union Territory has been made from Leh for dec…
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68th day of communication blockade in Kashmir since August 5 In the second episode of Voices from the Lockdown, we speak to Mansoor Peer, a journalist from Kashmir, who primarily reports on health. A lot has been said about the efforts of the Indian government resume functioning of schools and colleges in the Valley. Mansoor talks to us about how t…
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67th day of of communication blockade in Kashmir since August 5 In the first episode of Voices from the Lockdown, we speak to Javid Ahmad, a journalist from Srinagar. Javid reports primarily on defence and conflict. He elaborates on the situation in Kashmir, specifically about the effects of the communication blackout. He also provides updates abou…
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