An area of darkness

摘要

An information blackout has od-scured the northernmost tip of India. Since it scrapped Jammu & Kashmir's largely nominal autonomy on August 5th and carved the state into two territories, the central government has maintained a curfew in the region. Internet and telephone services have been suspended. Travel has been restricted. A young academic in Delhi says the lockdown made it impossible for him to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid with his family in rural Kashmir. The territory has "disappeared", he says, leaving people like him only able to guess what might be happening there.