Tag Archives: Mukhtar Khan

Only ‘The Telegraph’ and ‘Deccan Chronicle’ have AP photographers in Kashmir winning the Pulitzer Prize on page one. For most of the rest, it is routine news. Any wonder India is No. 142 on World Press Freedom index?

There has been nearly nothing to celebrate for Kashmiris, or at least for Kashmiri media, after they were confined to their own homes on 5 August 2019, without phones, without wifi and without the internet. The Coronavirus lockdown on top of their own lockdown only compounded the misery. Naturally, the prestigious Pulitzer Prize being awarded…