The festive mood was still on when the news of Kashmir’s ‘azadi’ icon Burhan Muzaffar Wani’s killing broke out late in the evening. It was third day after Eid and children in the nearby lane could be seen bursting firecrackers. The mood was enthusiastic and the kids holding their toy guns were seen everywhere — some posing as rebels, some as policemen and others as victims falling to bullets from both sides. That’s the impact deep-seated turmoil has on the kids in the Valley. The same trauma had made Wani,…
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