A tale of conflicted gathering: When Kashmiri Pandits, Muslims meet on Eid

The occasion of Eid al-Adha in and around the capital offered a glimpse of what they are grappling with and how the unfolding crisis lays bare complex relations between Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits

For nearly two weeks, the Indian government's unprecedented lockdown of Kashmir — to the extent that there is no free circulation of even daily news from the Valley — has led to an information vacuum, to put it mildly.

The central government, which imposed severe restrictions on movement and a communications blackout, claims that calm has prevailed after it decided to revoke the special status and statehood of Jammu and Kashmir. The mainstream media, hampered and acquiescent, has largely toed the line. The government has grudgingly accepted reports, after initially calling them fabricated, by some foreign publications that cited large-scale