‘Oppression does not last,’ my grandfather – now 91 and in ailing health – tells me as police line the roads outside.
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‘Oppression does not last,’ my grandfather – now 91 and in ailing health – tells me as police line the roads outside.
My father faces a coronavirus death sentence in an Indian prison, having committed no crime.
No Kashmiri will ever accept the abrogation of Kashmir’s autonomy.