The untold tales from Kashmir

February 13, 2017 17:09

Showkat Nanda was all of seven years old in 1989 when the Kashmiri militancy exploded. Within a year he lost a brother and a cousin to the violence as insurgents launched a deadly battle against Indian forces. Even as he, like many youths from Kashmir, was being trained across the LoC to fight India, Nanda discovered a knack for shooting with a camera.

Today, the 34-year-old who has master's degrees from the University of Kashmir and the University of Missouri, has made it tell the stories of his homeland, writes Evelyn Nieves in the New York Times.

'The Endless Wait is a project that Mr Nanda could say he has been gathering string on for most of his life. It focuses on the effect of enforced disappearances as men suspected of rebel activity or who knows what were snatched from their beds, the markets and the streets during the conflict's last 26 years, never to be seen again,' writes Nieves.

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