Local journalists in Kashmir are upset and scared, struggling to share stories from the Valley. What is the reason?

Whenever freedom of speech is curtailed, we are reminded of a couplet from Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poem, “Bol ke lab aazad hain tere, bol zaban ab tak teri hai.” The couplet is pertinent in the Valley’s condition post the abrogation of Article 370.

The national media is putting out an array of reports but are local journalists in Jammu and Kashmir able to report the true state of affairs? Outside the Press Club in J&K, we tried to find out how local journalists are carrying on with reporting amid the crisis.