Kashmir films: The azadi to choose own narrative

There's an irony about the latest fuss over a Channel 4 film on Kashmir. It's that the Kashmir valley has no cinema halls — an outcome of Islamist diktat in 1990. Cinema, like music, kite flying, wearing "skimpy" clothes (for women) and drinking alcohol are haraam, designed to promote vice. In the last more than two decades, people here have reconciled to this drab existence

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