'Plz Papa Contact Me': TV Channel Offers Last Line Of Contact To Cut-Off Kashmir

Delhi-based Gulistan TV’s ticker is one of the only ways left to send messages home to troubled region.

Staff at Gulistan TV have lost count of how many messages have flooded in over recent weeks. Every day, texts from viewers are broadcast across a banner at the bottom of the channel’s screen. Some are written by young people away studying at college, others are from Kashmiris travelling in India, or who have settled abroad.

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