Let Us Know How Kashmiris Feel

Media coverage has been biased, thanks to implicit censorship. The Indian media’s idea of covering Kashmir has often been in sync with ‘serving the national interest’. In the decades-old territorial conflict, journalists struggle to remain unbiased and untouched by nationalistic fervor while reporting on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

It’s the Indian media’s duty to ensure that TV debates on Article 370 are not devoid of representatives from Kashmir. Ever since the government revoked Article 370, which grants special status to Kashmir, and bifurcated the region into two union territories, the impact of the decision on the lives of Kashmiris (disruption of communications and essential supplies of medicines) have found minimal coverage in the Indian media.

Several foreign media outlets, however, have reported the tense situation in J&K. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar denied that there was a media clampdown in the Valley and flayed foreign news outlets for spreading biased and fake news.

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