In this personal narrative, Nisar Dharma reflects on the challenge as a parent to explain to his child growing up in a conflict zone issues as complex and painful as subjugation, control, military occupation and propaganda.
As a feeble February sun finally came out after weeks of bone-chilling cold, Aishah and I ambled out of our home in Srinagar to buy her a set of crayons. My nine-year-old likes these little walks together. Her favorite stationery mart is just a few hundred meters away from our home. To reach it, we must cross a bridge; the one she has crossed hundreds of times when she used to go to school until it was forcibly shut in August 2019. That month India stripped Kashmir of its special status, divided it into two federally controlled territories and followed up with a lockdown that would continue for many months. Aishah walks clinging on to my hand near the coils of barbed wire and metal barricades placed on the bridge by the Indian armed forces. We begin to hustle through the maze of barriers surrounded by three huge bunkers at…
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