I don’t want to count the days of the siege of Kashmir anymore. Sixty-seven. I don’t want, but I have to. We must not stop counting, because if we stop we run the risk to forget. And forget we must not. It has been since the 5th of August that Kashmir is cut off from the rest of the world: the right of association suspended; communications blocked (no internet or mobile connections); schools closed; shops shut; curfew enforced. The unilateral revision by the Indian government of an article of the Constitution that granted Kashmir a partial autonomy and an exceptional status was preceded by a fully-fledged military occupation (the ratio between military personnel and civilians is higher than that in Iraq or Afghanistan at the peak of the American invasion) and a pre-emptive collective punishment to avoid any form of protest. And after that, it was almost complete blackout for…

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