‘We’re Back In The Stone Age’: Kashmir Has Gone Close To Five Months Without The Internet scroll.in

“Internet hai to job hai [If there is the internet, there is a job],” said 32-year-old Shahid Wani, who lives in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The last time he was able to access the internet was on August 4. Wani worked with Cenedex India Limited, a private software company with a branch in Srinagar.

“All our work depended on the internet,” he explained, sitting in his home in Wasoora village. “I joined the company two and a half years ago, and headed a team of six software developers.” Unlike many other companies which shut down after the internet ban, Cenedex paid their Srinagar staff salaries for the month of August. But, a little more than a month into the internet ban, the company mailed its Srinagar staff to say it would be closing operations in the city.