Kashmir lockdown: Dark day for Kashmiri diaspora in Chennai on Eid

Chennai | Tuesday | 13th August, 2019

Summary:

‘‘It pains to see people celebrating on Facebook and sharing Whatsapp messages talking ill of Kashmiri women,’’ he says. With all communication and transport facilities to Kashmir cut, the community in Chennai were left stranded neither able to go home nor communicate with their dear ones. We have not had this kind of an Eid ever in our life,’’ says Firdouz Ahmed (34), another Kashmiri in Spencer. It’s a murder of democracy.’’A few Kashmiri men also observed Eid by wearing black shirts. Meanwhile, the Kashmiri community in Chennai strongly condemned the government’s move to turn Kashmir into a union territory..