Silenced and shut down: Kashmir’s year of lockdown | The Listening Post




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Summary: It has been more than a year since New Delhi scrapped Indian-administered Kashmir’s special status. Why has the region’s history been so hotly disputed - on the ground and in the news media - since India’s independence from the United Kingdom more than 70 years ago? Contributors: Rahul Pandita - Journalist and author, Our Moon Has Blood Clots Siddiq Wahid - Senior fellow, Centre for Policy Research India Nitasha Kaul - Associate professor, University of Westminster Suhasini Haidar - National and diplomatic affairs editor, The Hindu Aarti Tikoo Singh - Foreign affairs editor, Indo-Asian News Service Against all odds: Reporting under Kashmir’s communications blackout What has the revocation of Article 370 - and the security lockdown and communication blackout that followed - meant for Kashmiris and the journalists trying to tell their stories? Contributors: Anuradha Bhasin - Executive editor, Kashmir Times Peerzada Ashiq - Senior journalist, The Hindu Syed Shahriyar - Photojournalist - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/