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Social media ban: Some Kashmiris baffled, others suggest ways to defy it

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The Jammu and Kashmir home department ordered a suspension of 22 social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, QQ, WeChat, QZone, Tumblr, Google+, Baidu, Viber, Line, Snapchat, Pinterest, Telegram, Reddit, Snapfish, uploading video on YouTube, Vine, Xanga, Buzznet and Flickr. Mehraj Din, a PhD scholar of Islamic Studies at Kashmir University, is in a fix after the state government suspended the use of 22 social media and messaging platforms for a month. Selected for a prestigious summer programme in Ihsan Academy at Istanbul in Turkey, he had a scheduled Skype…

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