Outside the sun is blazing. Light filters through a small window. Jameela Banu, 47, is sitting in her kitchen inspecting her medicine, which is wrapped in a polythene bag. Her five-year-old grandson is playing with his mother. On the shelf is a picture of her 15-year-old son Ishtiyaq Ahamad Khanday, who was killed in the 2010 Kashmir uprising.

Banu has been unable to sleep alone in her house since witnessing her son’s death. She spends the day walking through the house, closing and locking windows and doors repeatedly. Her husband, Ghulam Ahmad Khanday, took her to doctors and eventually to a psychiatric hospital in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. She was diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is undergoing treatment.

‘Eight years have passed; the incident is still fresh on my mind,’ she says. ‘I cannot close my eyes without envisioning the face of my son.’