After two years of lockdown children from across the Kashmir Valley started returning to schools

Schools across Kashmir have reopened after nearly two years of home learning forced by back-to-back lockdowns. Initially closed after the disputed region’s partial autonomy was revoked in 2019, the schools were shut again after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March 2020. It was the day Waseem, a 16-year-old grade 10 student had been waiting for. “We were away from friends, from school which impacted our mental health. We used to feel depressed as we had no one to talk to and our classes also got impacted.” But the…

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