Before the 2008 protests, it was said that in Kashmir, everybody knows the reality. It is open out on the streets, in gossip of barbershops and pavements; it is there on every tongue, but no one dares to speak. The hunt for the dissenters by forces and intelligence agencies and by militants had made people numb. The protests in 2008 and subsequent use social media gave the much-needed confidence to people of Kashmir, who otherwise had turned quiet due the spiral of silence and surveillance. The second research note by Gowhar Farooq, one of the short-term social media research fellows at The Sarai Programme.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:38:39 +0000
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