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The guns that harm India

Govt offers bullet trains for everyone else but pellet guns for Kashmiris. No wonder their newspapers read different

Illustration by Binay Sinha
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Aakar Patel
The newspapers in Srinagar, where this is being written from, look and read like they are from another country. There’s no reference to the story coming from Ahmedabad, delivering a bullet train for Gujaratis, on any of the front pages. 

Some papers (and Kashmir has dozens of dailies) have chosen to lead with a story on the United Nations and some dispute between India and Pakistan. It is noticeable that many of the Urdu dailies have framed the engagement as “Pak o Hind” rather than the other way around. 

Most newspapers, nine in 10, have led with the release of a report
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