Love letters and landlines return in cut-off Kashmir

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Kashmir: Letters and landlines return to cut-off region The isolation is exacerbated by an unprecedented communications blockade: landline phones, mobiles & internet were suspended. Kashmir sunk into what a local editor called an 'information black hole.”

In neat cursive handwriting, a woman from Delhi wrote a letter to friends in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.

The woman had put pen to paper after she came across a Facebook post from a freelance Kashmiri journalist who was visiting Delhi.Manzoor Ahmed has been trying to call his customers from a street-side kiosk Many had sent digital messages. Others had written letters on paper, photographed them and sent them via Facebook Messenger.

There were emotional moments. At one home, parents of a college-going son studying in Chandigarh in northern India found out that he had come second in his exam."His mother hugged me and began weeping," says Mr Sayed.A communications blackout can end up reviving lost habits. In Kashmir, it has meant the return of letter-writing.

The blockade has also seen the resurrection of landline phones, which people had largely stopped using.India has more than a billion mobile phone subscribers and 560 million internet subscribers - it is one of the world's fastest growing digital markets. In comparison, there are only 23 million landline phones.

 

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