In the video Basit recounts that after the protests which erupted in Kashmir following terrorist Burhan Wani’s death, he could not find a single journalist in India who could “correctly report about Kashmir”.

He claimed that it became a challenge to convince an India journalist to write an article advocating self-determination (plebiscite) for Kashmir.

He finally tasted success after he managed to meet and convince Shobhaa De to write an article in which she wrote about the need to conduct a plebiscite in Kashmir.

The article dating back to July 2016 titled, Burhan Wani is dead but he will live on till we find out what Kashmir really wants, De wrote: