WIDER IMAGE - Barricades and books: life in restive Kashmir neighborhood. by dansiddiqui via ReutersPictures
The densely-populated, working class area in the main city, Srinagar, is a pocket of resistance to India's removal in early August of special status for Jammu and Kashmir, the country's only Muslim-majority state.Kashmiris ride past a trench dug by residents to prevent Indian security forces from entering Anchar neighbourhood.
Kashmiri men stand guard during night at a barricade to prevent Indian security forces from entering Anchar neighbourhood. "There is no fear in me," he added, holding a thick tree branch as he watched the street from a checkpoint.Kashmiri men sit in front of pro-independence graffiti sprayed on the shutter of a closed shop.
India cut internet and mobile services and imposed curfew-like restrictions to prevent protests. More than seven weeks later, some normalcy has returned and many of those detained have since been freed.19 Sep 2019A Kashmiri woman walks through an empty street in Anchar. Four college students have set up a makeshift school in a three-room house to give lessons to 200 children for a few hours each day. They keep streaming in, the girls with their heads covered, books in hand from nursery rhymes to mathematics.Kashmiri college students teach children inside a house.
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