Inshallah Kashmir: Living Terror (2013)
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Once the epitome of a mystical culture, a deep heritage of learning, of arts and craft; the crucible of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufi-Islam; verdant forests, snow-capped peaks, populated by a guileless, beautiful people; till the dark cloud of terror enveloped the Kashmir valley overnight. This film is the story of the conflict recounted as personal history, and that of present-day Kashmir. A series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of a people brutalized by two decades of militancy and its terrible response. Together they provide a sense of what it is like to be living terror and the the irony of living with terror under the watch of a secular, democratic republic, India. Today Kashmir is all about army, crackdowns, curfews, widows, orphans, rape, enforced disappearances, fake- encounters, mass graves, sadistic torture and trauma, and new categories of people like 'half-widows'. Twenty years of atrocities have altered the average Kashmiri’s perception of ‘normalcy’. And yet, there isn't a more congenial, generous, warm-hearted and cultured individual than she. So, military and paradise, bullet proof jackets and the veil; breathtaking vistas of mountains and crystal lakes are projected through barbed wire. Such is the state of ‘normalcy’ into which children are born and raised. (55 Min.)