Tea LeavesDodging India's media curbs in Kashmir
Under government pressure, self-censorship is growing in troubled region
Kashmiri journalists display laptops and placards during a protest demanding restoration of internet service in Srinagar, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, on Nov. 12, 2019. © Reuters
MINAAM SHAH
September 14, 2020 13:14 JST
When several young Muslims taking part in a religious procession were blinded by lead pellets fired by security forces in Kashmir in late August India's national newspapers and the international media caught the horror with pictures of teenagers with ruptured eyeballs and mutilated eye sockets.