Balancing financial responsibilities and academic pressures while adapting to unfamiliar social customs placed a heavy strain on Saira’s mental health.
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Kashmir has lived through decades of conflict. But within that conflict, another quieter battle plays out in parallel, a battle with the wait. A wait for a beloved who left one day and never returned.
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The Baisaran meadow stands deserted. A crackdown on suspected militants has led to homes being demolished. These images capture the silence, the pain and the loss that has left people living in the Valley stunned and heartbroken
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Hundreds of apple farmers living in villages in Pulwama and Anantnag are angry and upset as proposed railway lines are going to cut through their orchards
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In Kashmir, people have used walls as a medium to express themselves in the form of graffiti. Most of the graffiti now have been defaced or removed, especially in and around Srinagar. These photographs reflect the juxtaposition between these defaced graffiti messages and the changing political climate.
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