Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition
Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition
The Intercept
Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir After India Revoked the State’s Special Status
10 minutes Posted Sep 19, 2019 at 5:16 am.
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Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir — On the eve of Eid al-Adha last month, 17-year-old Asrar Khan lay in a vegetative state at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, a hospital in downtown Srinagar, Kashmir’s largest city. The unconscious teenager was barely hanging on to life, connected to a ventilator and blinded in one eye — the result, his family says, of pellet injuries at the hands of India’s armed forces.