The Land Without A Post Office
Photo by Showkat Nanda
It’s been nearly 25 years since armed conflict erupted in Kashmir. Thousands of people have died and hundreds are missing. In the years 2008 and 2010, Kashmir witnessed popular protests resulting in unprecedented violence. More than 120 people, most of them teenagers, were killed in police firing in 2010 alone.
These photographs capture an important aspect of the lives of Kashmiri people. Death, violence and mental trauma have virtually touched every person in the valley — children, youth, elders, and women. A deep identity crisis, a sense of insecurity, and a yearning to live a life of peace and dignity can be seen on the face of every Kashmiri even in the times of relative calm.
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An army soldier walks past a house destroyed during a gunfight in North Kashmir’s Baramulla town in April 2008.
Young men shout slogans during an anti-election demonstration in Kashmir, 2009
Ruqayya, 23, sits along with her two sisters behind a curtain in their home at Sheeri village. Her 24-year-old husband, Nazir Ahmad, a baker by profession, was killed during protests against Indian rule in 2010.
Children play at a prayer ground in Kashmir in the autumn of 2010. In the summer of the same year, at least 120 people were killed, most of them children and teenagers.
Policemen carry a protestor who was injured after a teargas shell hit him in the arm during a demonstration in Warpora area of Sopore.
The shadow of a protester throwing stones at paramilitary forces on a wall with anti-India graffiti, October 2010.
Musiab, a 13-year-old boy masks himself as he prepares to throw stones at government forces in Northern Kashmir, October 2010.
A woman leans towards the wall of Khanqah-e-Moula, the shrine of Mir Syed Ali Hamadani.
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