Amid communication curbs, desperate people revert to hand-written letters

Shafaq Shah The suspension of phone and internet services in Kashmir has prompted many people to take recourse to hand-written letters for communication. Shazia, a mother of two, wrote a letter to her aunt Rafiqa who lives in Aaribagh (Kanipora) to send her some milk for her one-and-a-half-year-old son. The milkman has not been able to come to Shazia’s place for the last fortnight and the milk her grandmother had sent lasted for just about a week. Shazia, who lives in the curfew-bound area of Naik Bagh (Natipora) sent the…

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