'Welcome to Kashmir'
A Kashmiri photojournalist remembers the day he was picked up by the police and tortured.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/11/kashmir-151102135831306.html
Haunted and Depressed: The Struggle of Orphans in Kashmir
In a congested classroom, 13-year-old Sahil Majeed is trying to copy on his note book what his teacher is writing on a white board with black marker pen.
He was a seven-year-old when his father disappeared after being abducted by the army in Kashmir. He had to be admitted in an orphanage in Srinagar for his mother had no income to take care of her only son.
Sahil has two younger sisters and a mother who is a half widow. His voice trembles with fear and frowns become visible on his little forehead every time he recalls how his father became disappeared. I was sleeping that night when army raided our house. They took my father along and then there came no news about him, he said.
Sahils mother has been moving from pillar to post to find her missing husband but all her efforts are proving futile.
Sahil was admitted in the orphanage after his mother found it difficult to bear the costs of his studies. I miss my little sisters. It has been three months that I havent seen them. I want to run away from this place but I realise where I would go then, he said.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/10/haunted-and-depressed-the-struggle-of-orphans-in-kashmir/