tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64176377832938203532024-03-05T05:32:48.947-08:00Faisal Magray Photojournalist Faisal Magrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003185285820031387noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417637783293820353.post-19946708955127154652022-02-20T01:09:00.000-08:002022-11-10T02:37:38.235-08:00The depth of a scar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">The depth of a scar</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u><br /></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><u>By Faisal Magray</u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><u><br /></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Outside the sun is blazing. Light filters through a small window. Jameela Banu, 47, is sitting in her kitchen inspecting her medicine, which is wrapped in a polythene bag. Her five-year-old grandson is playing with his mother. On the shelf is a picture of her 15-year-old son Ishtiyaq Ahamad Khanday, who was killed in the 2010 Kashmir uprising.<span><a name='more'></a></span><br />
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Banu has been unable to sleep alone in her house since witnessing her son’s death. She spends the day walking through the house, closing and locking windows and doors repeatedly. Her husband, Ghulam Ahmad Khanday, took her to doctors and eventually to a psychiatric hospital in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. She was diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is undergoing treatment.<br />
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‘Eight years have passed; the incident is still fresh on my mind,’ she says. ‘I cannot close my eyes without envisioning the face of my son.’<br />
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Tensions in Kashmir flared in February when a young militant drove an explosives-laden SUV into an Indian military convey, killing at least 40 soldiers. But this Indian-administered region has been experiencing a prolonged armed conflict for the last two and half decades, which has taken a heavy toll on the psychological wellbeing of the people.<br />
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Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two gained independence from Britain in 1947. Both the nations claim the territory in full. Several rebel groups have for decades fought Indian soldiers deployed in the territory, demanding independence for the region or its merger with Pakistan. Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting. The present insurgency in Kashmir began in 1989 and the ongoing armed conflict has claimed a total of 41,000 lives in 27 years.<br />
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Abdul Qadeer Bhat, 34, was 12-years-old when he was tortured by the security forces during 1990s. He was returning from school when he saw security forces in his home, conducting a search operation. When he entered the house, he was taken into separate room and tortured for two hours.<br />
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Qadeer’s parents took him to a general physician in their village but nothing improved. He too was referred to a psychiatric hospital in Srinagar, and diagnosed with PTSD and severe depression.<br />
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Mental health services in Kashmir are inadequate and accessibility remains a hurdle. Kashmir’s only psychiatric hospital – the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS), in Srinagar – is facing manpower shortage.<br />
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According to a 2015 report by Médecins Sans Frontières, nearly 1.8 million adults – 45 per cent of Kashmir’s adult population – suffer from some form of mental distress. A majority of people have experienced conflict-related trauma.<br />
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‘Trauma in Kashmir is reality, very prevalent,’ says Dr Arshad Hussain, associate professor of psychiatry at the government medical college in Srinagar. ‘The prevalence of mental health disorders is more in women then men. Apart from PTSD the other mental disorders that we found among Kashmiri people are schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, phobias, OCD, dysthymia and generalized anxiety disorder.’<br />
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In many cases, families aren’t familiar with PTSD and don’t know how to help their loved ones. ‘It’s very hard for family members to understand the person going through PTSD,’ says Saima Khan, a clinical psychologist. ‘Its symptoms influence the behavior of a person and can cause them to appear angry, strange and upset. PTSD victims often take a long time to recover and the family support plays an important role in it.’</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">*******Click on pictures to view as a Slideshow******</span></b></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Jameela Banu suffers from PTSD. She spends the day walking through the house, closing windows, doors and locking them repeatedly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whenever Qadeer hears loud noises, like bustling music, he starts to panic. At night he has difficulty falling asleep.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Ayesha Begum, 58, suffers from PTSD and depression; her son, a militant, was killed in an encounter in Indian-administered Kashmir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Kashmiri women pray at the Makhdoom Sahib Shrine in Srinagar. The popular shrine often provides solace and comfort to those suffering from mental trauma.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nine-year-old Kashmiri girl receives treatment for a mental disorder.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 35-year-old woman who suffers from PTSD and depression receiving Multi Behavioural Therapy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Jagmeet Singh, a clinical psychologist, uses Malin's Intelligence Scale for Children to examine a 15-year-old boy who suffers from mental trauma.</td></tr>
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Faisal Magrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003185285820031387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417637783293820353.post-1492332040838741062021-02-17T23:40:00.039-08:002022-05-03T06:19:19.599-07:00 Abandoned in cradles <p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;"> Abandoned in cradles </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><u>By Faisal Magray</u></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>India is renowned for its female foeticide. A shocking number of baby girls are found dead or alive in bushes or even buried alive across parts of India. Babies in rural parts of India do not even see their first birthday due to malnutrition and harsh living conditions.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p>But a growing number of charities and children’s homes are implementing the cradle scheme. It’s an electronic cot that sits outside orphanages and hospitals and alerts staff when it has a new arrival. It also allows mothers to give up their baby without having to identify themselves. It has brought a ray of hope for vulnerable women in India, but also couples seeking to adopt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hospitals, orphanages and police stations across Delhi are overwhelmed with abandoned girls dumped in ‘baby baskets’ no longer wanted.</p><p>Adoption officials claim there are too many babies waiting to find forever homes, but a leading charity claim ‘baby baskets’ - where parents can leave unwanted children without fear of prosecution - are pivotal in ensuring the survival of these babies. </p><p><br /></p><p>The illegal, yet widespread, practice of dowry, a financial transaction paid to the groom’s family at the time of marriage, is a chief reason parents may consider daughters a financial burden, preferring sons to daughters. This resulted in the practice of sex-selective abortions.</p><p>The Indian parliament introduced The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PSPNDT) in 1994, criminalising prenatal sex-determination tests, with an aim to prevent their misuse to selectively abort female foetuses. </p><p>The act has been strictly implemented only after 2011, when the gender ratio in Rajasthan for children up to six years fell sharply from 909 for every 1,000 boys in 2001 to 883 in 2011.</p><p>The Delhi Council of Child Welfare ( DCCW ) ensures each baby has no claimants, by working closely with the Delhi police and other agencies, before allowing adoption. On occasion, during the process some mothers come back for their baby but it’s rare. Sadly, there are many more girls than boys abandoned and in desperate need of adopting in India.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">*******Click on pictures to view as a Slideshow******</span></b></i></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJwFNqrsMI1EaFai4azcP78Y39YkbUN3XX_dU2XHuZEs2cmMoCH9QXBTnoMohAFOG1vPCMLTOmoJ8aF5WdQFZRZqXgtEpnBnJ-5IPI-TW8awehpCQAozOZ7YldcD14yVQR3bkN-4LdpU/s1500/KG8A4261.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJwFNqrsMI1EaFai4azcP78Y39YkbUN3XX_dU2XHuZEs2cmMoCH9QXBTnoMohAFOG1vPCMLTOmoJ8aF5WdQFZRZqXgtEpnBnJ-5IPI-TW8awehpCQAozOZ7YldcD14yVQR3bkN-4LdpU/s16000/KG8A4261.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">India’s Largest E-waste Graveyard </span></b></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><u>By Faisal Magray</u></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">India is emerging as one of the world’s major electronic waste generators and accounts for scrapping 70% of the World’s e-waste. Seelampur, a small city is one such market for e-waste in India is situated 15 kilometers in East Delhi.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">According to a study on ‘Electronic Waste Management in India,’ conducted by ASSOCHAM–cKinetics joint study on ‘World Environment Day’- by 2018, the global volume of e-waste generated is expected to reach 130 million tons from 93.5 million tons in 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 17.6% from 2016 to 2018.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Seelampur is the largest e-waste dismantling hub in India. Seelampur has the distinction of having more than 3000 small and big shops for scrapping e waste. E-waste is one of the largest and yet an unorganized sector in India. It provides employment to more than one lakh people. E-waste market in Seelampur, alone, provides bread and butter to more than thirty thousand people.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Gadgets discarded by India's 1.2 billion people accounts for much of the e-waste processed in Delhi but there's concern a growing amount is arriving from other countries, particularly Western nations like Australia. A 2014 report by peak business group, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), said Delhi "is emerging as the world's dumping yard for e-waste". The discarded computer monitors, motherboards, cathode ray tubes, printed circuit board, mobile phones and chargers, compact discs, headphones, white goods such as plasma televisions, air conditioners, and refrigerators constitutes e-waste.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Each truck carries around 10 tonnes of e-waste which enters into Seelampur e-waste market. Most of the people working in these shops and godowns are teenagers. Most of the poor teenage population of Seelampur does not go to school but work in these shops and earn Rs 200 per day. However, the workers suggest that there work is just limited to segregation and after that the waste is taken to the jungles near Lucknow. They usually segregate copper from the plastic material.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">E-waste includes all electronic items which in turns contain toxic elements like mercury, lead and cadmium. Since, putting this waste in landfills is very expensive and bury them below the ground is harmful for the environment, people generally opt for e-waste. Moreover, these e wastes contain some radioactive substance which can prove harmful to the workers. Around 4-5 years back, Seelampur came into the headlines because of deaths caused by radioactive elements. In 2010, a scrap dealer died due to exposure of radioactive radiations when 60 Cobalt pencils were found in the scrap materials.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">*******Click on pictures to view as a Slideshow******</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Faisal Magrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003185285820031387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417637783293820353.post-82528539269687898672021-02-14T05:15:00.008-08:002022-05-03T06:20:58.808-07:00Child Labour <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">Child Labour </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>By Faisal Magray</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">According to the ILO, there are around 12.9 million Indian children engaged in work between the ages of 7 to 17 years old. When children are employed or doing unpaid work, they are less likely to attend school or attend only intermittingly, trapping them in the cycle of poverty. Millions of Indian girls and boys are going to work every day in quarries and factories, or collecting garbage on the street.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Many child labourers in India are working for starvation wages in textile factories, helping with the processing of carpets, or doing back breaking work in brick making factories and quarries. Other child labourers work selling cigarettes, called "Bidis", on the street for the tobacco industry. Children are also used for cheap labour in industries such as steel extraction, gem polishing and carpet manufacturing. A staggering number of girls are victims of child trafficking in India, whether through traditional bondage or through organized crime. The commercial sexual exploitation of children is among the worst forms of child labour and in India there are around 1.2 million children involved in prostitution.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Indian Government enacted a law against child labour in 1993 prohibiting dangerous work or activities that could harm the mental, spiritual, moral or social development of girls and boys under the age of 18. However, child labour continues for a number of reasons, for example people exploit loopholes in the law which allows the employment of children if the work is part of a family business. Thus, having children sell cigarettes on the street could be considered legal if it is part of a family business. In addition, numerous business leaders, such as mine owners, hold political office and have considerable influence. Companies may not be interested in banishing the cheap labour from within their business operations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In 2006 and again in 2016, the laws against child labour were tightened to ensure that children under the age of 14 were prohibited from working as domestic help or service staff in restaurants and hotels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">*******Click on pictures to view as a Slideshow******</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Kashmir conflict continues to be unresolved after more than six decades, fuelling the conventional and nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan and bleeding their economy. Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two gained independence from British rule in 1947. Both the nations claim the territory in full. Several rebel groups have for decades fought Indian soldiers deployed in the territory, demanding independence for the region or its merger with Pakistan. Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The insurgency in Kashmir began in 1989 and ongoing armed conflict has claimed a total of 41,000 lives in the past 27 years which means an average of 4 deaths per day in the state or 1519 casualties every year, according to the latest available government data, Hindustan Times reported in 2017.</div></div>
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Faisal Magrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003185285820031387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417637783293820353.post-28485237115516351842021-02-13T07:22:00.013-08:002022-05-02T22:57:20.170-07:00Blind Spots<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">Blind Spots : Stories from a Leper Colony</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>By Faisal Magray</u></div><div>Situated on the banks of Nigeen Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital city, the Himalayan region’s only leper colony was established on sixty acres of land. Single-story apartments align themselves next to old huts and a hospital building. This settlement is distinct from every other settlement in Srinagar.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Mohammad Essa, 79, is a resident of this settlement. He remembers being married in his hometown in Kargil. He was happily living with his wife and two daughters until suddenly, his life changed when an innocuous-looking patch appeared on his face. Over time, the patch grew and turned into a painless lump. He ignored it for many years until one day, he visited a government hospital in Kargil, a town 200 kilometers away from Srinagar, to check the lump. His doctor diagnosed him with leprosy and the news shattered him.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“I don’t remember the year exactly, but the doctors at the hospital told me that there is no treatment for this disease,” said Essa. “They said I would have to quickly move to Srinagar Leprosy Hospital.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As his family members and the village elders learned about his disease, they forced him to move out of his home and into the Srinagar leper colony.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“I was brought here by my family members,” he said. “They never came to see me again.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Essa has lived in the leper colony for the past forty years. Nowadays, he sits near the door of his newly allotted quarter. He wears oversized clothes, holds a wooden stick in his hand, and talks with a smile on his face.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“In the early 2000s, my leprosy was treated with a multi-drug therapy, but due to complications, I lost vision in both my eyes,” Essa said.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Essa’s room is simple. He has a bed, clothes hanging on the wall, and utensils lying on the floor. Essa can’t see anything. His blindness was sudden, unexpected, and horrific. He said it left him feeling totally alone, often causing him to break down in tears. But now, after so many years, he has learned to live with it.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>After years of living alone, he met Shakeya Bano, another leper in the colony. The two decided to marry. Bano is timid and has one eye, the other covered with a scarf. Essa spoke and said that Bano is everything to him and that they live happily. He sees the world through her eyes.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Initially, only a few patients registered at the colony, but as the years went by, Srinagar became a community for residents who were shunned by society. According to local records, there are 100 people living in Srinagar. However, members say that the figure hovers more closely around 250, including their families. The colony is home to three generations living side-by-side.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Shukur Ali, 84, is the oldest among the male patients. He arrived at the colony five decades ago. Despite being blind, he continues to wear spectacles, believing one day he might be able to see again. He spends his time listening to the voices on the radio that echo through his room.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“I was 20 when I was diagnosed with leprosy. I had some brownish patches on my forehead and the doctor told me it was leprosy,” said Ali. “My family was forced by the villagers to throw me out. Leprosy was considered to be infectious and people were afraid of the disease.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Ali said he still remembers the painful journey from Kargil to Srinagar.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“There was no transportation available from Kargil to Srinagar because the road was still under construction,” Ali said. “I still remember taking a lift from an army vehicle and being dropped off at the Drass sector. There, I boarded another army vehicle up to Sonamarg. Once I reached Sonamarg, I took a government bus and paid the bus driver three annas up to Srinagar. It took me around nine days to reach Srinagar from Kargil.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Sometime after he arrived at the colony, Ali married Fatima Banu and Banu became Ali’s late second wife. Her photograph can be seen hanging on one of the wooden shelves in his room.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“We lived together for fifteen years,” Ali said. “She died some years ago. I miss her every second. She was the only one who supported and loved me. I only spent fifteen years with her, but that was the most beautiful period of my life.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There is still stigma attached to leprosy in this province, despite advancements in treatment and social awareness. In the early 2000s, admission to the colony stopped after leprosy was declared completely treatable. Yet, there were still others who joined the leper colony.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Mukhti was 16 years old when she was diagnosed with leprosy. People in her village immediately shunned her and told her parents that she had to leave. As she was telling her story, she sat quietly in her allotted quarter and kept moving her hands. Her leprosy is clearly visible on her long brown nails. She, too, has lost vision in her eyes.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>“I am from Machil, which is 200 kilometers away from Srinagar,” Mukhti said. “I was very young when I came to Srinagar with my brother for treatment. He admitted me to this hospital and told me that the treatment will take some time. I remember him saying, ‘I will keep on coming.’ My brother used to visit, but after my parents died, my other family members completely abandoned me.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Mukhti is the oldest female in the colony at 80 years old. She is also paralyzed.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Although there are lepers who have received treatment, society continues to shun them, forcing them to live as outcasts. India has an estimated 1,000 leper colonies that are home to hundreds of thousands of people. Conditions in the colonies vary enormously and the Kashmir leper colony, where more than a hundred families live, has been known for its better living conditions.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The myths, socio-cultural beliefs, stigma, and lack of awareness attached to leprosy continue to take a toll on the patients. Even cured lepers shoulder a heavy emotional burden, perpetually ostracized by society.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">*******Click on pictures to view as a Slideshow******</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5oq8MyArldzeo-XvB5CkusxoWink2-w_yG2R5HSDnEhkwVaQN1hwoyWT-1islzgBhYYDw2T9pDNyfYn7-BIgn8nAnDTU1IF5Otk20hU_Unrh8gO1FTDWlLiV_DcNENhBgyDOeM_U-iSw/s1000/FM+%25286%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5oq8MyArldzeo-XvB5CkusxoWink2-w_yG2R5HSDnEhkwVaQN1hwoyWT-1islzgBhYYDw2T9pDNyfYn7-BIgn8nAnDTU1IF5Otk20hU_Unrh8gO1FTDWlLiV_DcNENhBgyDOeM_U-iSw/s16000/FM+%25286%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Within India, an estimated 40 million internal migrant workers, largely in the informal economy, were severely impacted by the government’s COVID-19 lockdown.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With transportation systems initially shut down, many had no recourse to travel options back to homes and villages, resulting in harrowing journeys home. Those who were able to make it home found, in some instances, villages refusing entry because of fears of transmission.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The shocking images of migrants forced to walk in desperation showed the enormity of the crisis as well as some of the challenges posed by an extended lockdown in India where so many people live hand to mouth and cannot afford not to work.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizVJKaOyRP2JGmS80Z_H4o_d3kHXP8nV784rgSTviaCnPDRJ0H9Mxz4iDjEz9EavrMnR92vAfn2apLVGLya69nNW_uEfcqGF1q0z-kipyBSAO6jkVUJB9RakO6JUGmQfMO-qDpXNGeZnw/s1500/662A2613+fm6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizVJKaOyRP2JGmS80Z_H4o_d3kHXP8nV784rgSTviaCnPDRJ0H9Mxz4iDjEz9EavrMnR92vAfn2apLVGLya69nNW_uEfcqGF1q0z-kipyBSAO6jkVUJB9RakO6JUGmQfMO-qDpXNGeZnw/s16000/662A2613+fm6.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Nine women disfigured by acid became defiant models at the first haute couture fashion show for the survivors of the growing scourge of acid attacks in India.<br />
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The women, nearly all victims of husbands or close family, paraded in gowns donated by top Indian designers including Rohit Bal, Ranna Gill and Archana Kochhar. None covered their face.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Mohini Gaurav, 33, an acid attack survivor getting her makeup applied by stylist during the fashion show in New Delhi, India</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Reshma Qureshi, 20, an acid attack survivor and model looking into the mirror after her makeup during a fashion show organised by the 'Make Love Not Scars' NGO in New Delhi, India, on Saturday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Qureshi, who was attacked five years ago by her brother-in-law who had thought he was throwing acid at his wife, said she was afraid to leave her home after the attack</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The women, nearly all victims of acid attacks by husbands or close family, paraded in gowns donated by top Indian designers including Rohit Bal, Ranna Gill and Archana Kochhar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mamta, an acid attack survivor getting her makeup applied by stylist during the fashion show</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Qureshi, pictured having her makeup done, appeared at the New York fashion week last year and who is now writing a book that will come out next year.</td></tr>
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Faisal Magrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003185285820031387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417637783293820353.post-70856267486212960872021-02-13T01:15:00.002-08:002021-03-07T04:31:25.557-08:00Education In Shambles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">Education In Shambles</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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Government Schools in Kashmir work in the rented buildings ranging from a single room to three rooms, whether owned or rented, almost all are dilapidated. Information revealed by the Directorate of School Education shows that there are 11633 Government schools in Kashmir division. This exceeds the number of villages, which stand at around 5,000. Most of the Government school buildings are rented, and few are government owned. Total enrollment in these schools is 10.23 Lacs out of which 5.73 lacs are Male students and 4.50 lacs are female. Most of the students who are enrolled in these schools belong to less privileged sections of society.<br />
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The picture is grimmer in the schools of Kashmir valley. Poor infrastructure continues to mar the performance of government schools, parents who are economically backward are sending their wards to these institutions. The government is not putting proper effort into streamlining the management of these schools.The economic survey report tabled recently in Jammu Kashmir state legislative assembly revealed that the number of dilapidated schools across Jammu and Kashmir doubled in just one year from 474 to 948.<br />
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Majority of the Government schools in Kashmir Division lack basic infrastructure like toilets, washrooms, and play grounds, furniture, libraries etc. School children are worst sufferers, they often do the job of cleaning and sweeping the school premises. They lay mats on the floor in the morning and roll them off every evening. The reason there are no sweepers in schools so the burden shifts to the children.</div>
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The common trend in Kashmir is that majority of parents who are economically wealthy, are admitting their wards to private schools which are said to have better facilities than those run by government. Lack of infrastructure apart, outdated teaching methods, outdated books, and the absence of libraries for children are other factors responsible for the trend.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lone student studies in a class room in a government school in Srinagar, Kashmir.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">General view of the government school operating in a collapsed building in Srinagar, Kashmir. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">General view of the five reeking classrooms, separated by plywood sheets, crammed in a 20-square-meter hall under a rusted roof with no ceiling at government school in Srinagar, Kashmir</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kashmiri children take part in a lesson at a government school operating in a rented building in Srinagar, Kashmir. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Kashmiri children take part in a lesson at a government school operating<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students attending class in a government school in Srinagar, Kashmir. The school has no seating arrangements for students and they sit on dusty jute mats. In the absence of toilet, the students and teachers have to knock adjacent residential homes.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students play carom board on slab in a government school in Srinagar, Kashmir. The school also does not have playground and a slab adjacent to the school provides escape for the curricular activities of children.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A student reads a paper in a class room in a government school in Srinagar, Kashmir. School is functioning from a crimpled, dilapidated hall of commercial building and lacks basic facilities like drinking water and toilet</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Teachers lead their classes in a single room of a government school operating in a rented building in Srinagar, Kashmir. The room has been partitioned by school staff to give space for two cramped classrooms that holds two sections of students from different grades.</td></tr>
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Alphapack is a team of street workout athletes founded in 2016 with the goal of promoting street workout and calisthenics in India. Branded clothing and showing off at gyms is not for these young athletes, who want people around the country to know about this form of exercise.<br />
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Foreign countries have dedicated calisthenics parks, encouraging the medium, but in India, the sport is little known. Tushar Sharma, Kunal Mahour, Anuj Kumar and the rest of team Alphapack want to represent India on a world stage and eventually, open their own academy to train people in the art of the street workout.<br />
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Faisal Magrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003185285820031387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417637783293820353.post-45893925502467051742020-08-10T02:29:00.003-07:002022-05-08T10:34:52.138-07:00Blog : ‘Nothing is left’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">Blog : ‘Nothing is left’</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The labyrinth of narrow alleys and lanes that form the old quarters of Srinagar were filled with soldiers— wielding guns and batons and wearing steel helmets and other protective gear. As I made my way to Kanimazar, a small but densely-populated locality of the capital city of Indian-administered Kashmir, the bright sunlight was casting harsh shadows. <span><a name='more'></a></span>Women were peeping out of windows, entry and exit points were sealed with barbed wires, and the deafening silence all around was only broken by the chirping of birds and the roar of military vehicles. The area was filled with smoke. Two militants had been killed in a gunfight with security forces only a few days ago with local residents accusing the latter of burning down several houses.<br />
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The anger on their faces was palpable . Among the piles of rubble were broken mirrors, wedding dresses, stacks of new and old clothes, tins of rice grains, shoes, cutlery, flower pots , copper utensils, quilts among other things— all charred.<br />
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I entered a house with four small rooms, kitchen and a lawn which was completely damaged, and looked like a coal mine. I heard the footsteps of someone echoing through the house. I walked a little further and found Nusrat, a young widow, standing on the stairs of her damaged house. I gathered some courage and took Nusrat’s picture. The shadows on her face got deeper and blacker and gradually disappeared as the light from the sky faded. The black shadow on her face smudged with her dress, I noticed. After some time I stood on the porch , peering out and began to count the number of houses that had been damaged, trying to get a sense of destruction.<br />
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Nusrat’s house was destroyed on the afternoon of May 19. She lost nearly everything . “I have so many different emotions attached to this house that I can’t even explain; I feel lost, she said.”Nothing is left, I see pieces of my belonging everywhere,” Nusrat said.<br />
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With mobile phone services and internet suspended, she was unable to communicate with her neighbours and relatives. She remained in her house until 10:45 AM, after she was asked to leave her house and run for her life. She says with a sigh: “It was around 2:00 AM, I was sitting with my daughters in a room when a bright white light fell on our room. A feeling of horror gripped my heart in the harsh light that focussed on us. After few minutes police knocked heavily on the main door and started searching the entire house and told us to stay in one room and not to move out. ”<br />
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“When the gunfight started around 6:00am bullets and mortar shells were coming from all directions, no room in our house was safe,” she said, recalling the fateful night when she and her two daughters were trapped in their house. When the tin roof of her house crashed to the ground, her little daughters were screaming. She along with her two daughters crouched together closely and took refuge under the concrete staircase on the first floor of her house.<br />
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“Both my daughters went pale and their bodies were shaking . They were crying because of the loud sound of intermittent blasts , scary gunshots, and flame throwers. Gunshots are still ringing in my ears,” says Nusrat<br />
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Nusrat lost her husband in 2014 due to a sudden heart attack . Her husband built the house by working hard and also taking housing loan from a bank. To run her family, Nusrat now works as a helper in a government department . She is left with two daughters and ailing mother-in-law. “ Years ago I lost my husband which left us shattered. Now I have lost my house and have no idea how we would continue our lives.”<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Nusrat, 37, a young widow standing on the stairs of her damaged house in Srinagar. </span></div>
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Sitting inside her damaged Kitchen, Nusrat is in grief as neighbors and relatives continue to pour in to offer their sympathies.<br />
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At night Nusrat’s family stay at her brother’s home and she comes to visit each day to search for deeply personal items . She said she’s looking for anything that may have survived. “I had kept gold ornaments and some cash in my luggage, everything was charred.”<br />
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The gun battle lasted about 15 hours and ended with the killing of Junaid Ashraf Sehrai, a militant commander with Kashmir’s largest rebel group, Hizbul Mujahideen, and his aide. Junaid, son of senior separatist political leader Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai, joined the rebel ranks in early 2018 after graduating in business management from the Kashmir university.<br />
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Director General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, Dilbag Singh said the operation was “clean and only one residential house caught fire which was controlled immediately”.<br />
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“The first thing we did in the morning was to evacuate the inmates. In that process two forces personnel suffered injuries”, he said<br />
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Indian government has formulated a new strategy not to hand over the bodies of rebels to their families to thwart massive funerals for anti-India dissent in the contested region. Police is burying rebels in remote mountainous places in North and central districts of Kashmir. Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai led the funeral prayers for his rebel son in absentia.<br />
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Authorities snapped cellular services and internet in a common tactic to make organizing anti-India protests difficult and discourage dissemination of protest videos. Rebel groups have been fighting against Indian rule since 1989. Nearly 70,000 people have been killed in the armed uprising and the ensuing Indian military crackdown. There are about 650,000 to 750,000 Indian armed forces deployed in the region fighting insurgents.<br />
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There is no research available on the number of houses destroyed by government forces in Valley. But according to data analysis platform India Spend, which accessed police data reports, says that as many as 105 houses have been destroyed since 2015 in encounters in Pulwama district only, one of the worst militancy-hit districts in south Kashmir.<br />
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On the same day when the encounter was over people from adjacent areas were moving towards Nawakadal area to visit the gunfight site and also express solidarity with the local families. According to local Mohalla Committee, 22 houses were gutted in the fire. It was during that time a half burnt house collapsed leaving seven people critically injured. The first causality of house collapse was 12-year-old boy Basim Aijaz who succumbed at Shri Majaraja Hari Singh Hospital (SMHS) in Srinagar City. Later on May 24, Eid-ul- Fitr, two more civilians Manzoor Ahmed Khan, 55, and Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, 25, died of severe burn injuries at the Shri Majaraja Hari Singh Hospital (SMHS).</div>
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marked by Muslims as a whole, but for Shia muslims it is a major religious
commemoration of the martyrdom at Karbala of Hussein (A.S.), a grandson of the
Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W). For Shia Muslims, Ashura is a solemn day of mourning
the martyrdom of Hussein (A.S.) in 680 AD at Karbala in modern-day Iraq. It is
marked with mourning rituals and passion plays re-enacting the martyrdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dressed in black also parade through the streets slapping their chests and
chanting. Some Shia men seek to emulate
the suffering of Hussein (A.S.) by flagellating themselves with chains or
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The annual Urs – death anniversary— of revered Kashmiri saint, Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom (RA) is observed every year on the 24th of Safar, the second month in the Islamic calendar, with fervor and gaiety. Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom sahib, popularly known as Makdoom Sahib and Sultan-Ul-Arifeen meaning ‘King of Gnostics’, is highly revered by Kashmiri muslims and his shrine located on the southern side of the Hari Parbhat hill in downtown Srinagar Kashmir , is thronged by thousands of people during the 13-day Urs.<br />
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Sufi Saint had played a vital role in the diffusion of religious and spiritual education, social and political consciousness among Kashmiri muslims. He inherited the mysticism, from the very childhood was inclined to the company of holy men, and to the truth. Kashmiri Muslims have been paying obeisance at the shrine for nearly 500 years now.</div>
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He not only guided people in religious studies but there are thousands who were benefited from his spiritual powers. Apart from the annual Urs, thousands of people visit the shrine usually on thursdays and mondays, besides every 13th of the Islamic calendar to pay obeisance.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">A man prays infront of wall, tied with thousand of colored cloth pieces (votives) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">at </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the Makhdoom Sahib Shrine in Srinagar, Kashmir. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">General view of the Makhdoom Sahib Shrine which is located on the southern side of Hari Parbat Hill in Srinagar kashmir . The shrine is double storied, in the name of the Sufi saint Makhdoom Sahib popularly known as Sultan-Ul-Arifeen. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims who believe in Sufism throng the shrine to offer prayers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"> A Kashmiri man prays at the mausoleum of Sheikh Hamza, popularly known as Makhdoom Sahib, on a hillock in Srinagar, Kashmir during the annual Urs – death anniversary - of the 16th century muslim saint. </td></tr>
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Faisal Magrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09003185285820031387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417637783293820353.post-51228484911113817302013-07-16T00:24:00.003-07:002021-03-02T09:32:23.452-08:00 A look at an ancient craft<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;"> A look at an ancient craft</span></b></div>
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homes for centuries, traditional earthen pottery might soon become a thing of
the past. Pottery took the shape of indigenous Kashmiri art and some people
adopted it as a profession. Pottery is one such art, which was once very
popular in Kashmir. The people, who are associated with this art, are called
Kral (in kashmiri ) and Potter ( in english).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Hundreds of people were, once, associated with
this trade and products made by them were used for domestic purpose. The potter
used to make numerous utensils with different designs in their workshop. It is a wheel driven by
hands. In the middle of it is placed a lump of clay from which pots are made.
When desired pot is ready, it is then detached from the wheel by a special thread
called kralpan (in kashmiri). From large vessels to miniature cups, they are
first baked in the potters miniature kiln and then decorated. After then they
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">In Nishat, Srinagar,
the locality of Kral Sangri was known for pottery making. Young and old in each
family would make earthen pots. However, now only a few families make these
earthen utensils in the entire locality. Pottery, once the main source of
income for many, is now a closed chapter the inhabitants do not want to return
to. During the past few decades these earthen pots have been replaced with
aluminium, plastic and steel products, affecting the livelihood of a large
number of artisans engaged in the trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of using these items is fading away. It has forced the people, who are involved
in this business, to look for alternatives as the demand for these items is
declining. They have closed their workshops. Their condition is not good they are living a miserable life. The golden
hands which once chiseled marvels of soil have been neglected. These craftsmen
have been deceived by their own ancestral art because it did not stand the
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