Everybody here has several birthdays. Intuition, telepathy, whatever, that’s the only way you survive this place
Two journalists in India-administered Kashmir were recently charged under anti-terror law. The police action wasn’t a first or the only one of its kind. Soon after, three others received the Pulitzer Prize for their photo-coverage of last year—this was a first. In our ongoing conversation on what it’s like for the news media on the ground, we bring you a photo essay based on our selections from Sanjay Kak’s Witness (2017). The stories and images below cover three decades of the conflict. Little has changed in the disputed region.
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MERAJ UD DIN Meraj ud Din / Crackdown by army soldiers, Srinagar 1993. When I was at Kashmir Times the teleprinter was on the same line as the phone. I don’t know why, but if you picked up that line, you could hear the wireless feed of the local Police Control Room. So whenever any one of us was in the teleprinter room, we would surely pick up the phone, hoping to catch something. And one day I did: in December 1989, when Rubaiya Sayeed was kidnapped, that’s where I first heard it. To be honest, I didn’t think much of it until I casually told one of my colleagues. It’s only then that I realised what a scoop it was. The daughter of India’s Home Minister kidnapped by Kashmiri militants! A senior police officer later asked me where we got our tip-offs. I said, “You’re the people who give…
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