Cinema can’t help heal wounds in Kashmir
With the opening of a multiplex in Srinagar, cinema returns to the Kashmir Valley after a gap of 23 years. Last week, I was asked many times whether cinema can heal the ongoing trauma of the people in the Kashmir Valley. No, it can’t. Wounds, bruises and pain can never be settled or even lessened by these distracting moves. Also, have we bothered to ask the Valley people what they want? What are their demands? We haven’t even bothered to find out the reasons to the growing alienation.
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