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A pellet gun survivor sitting by the window in his house to hear the sounds in the street below in Srinagar, Kashmir.

In the Dark: How Kashmir's Pellet Gun Victims Navigate a World That Forgot Them

30 May 2025

9 min read

Teenagers who lost their sight to the so-called ‘non-lethal weapons’ continue to grapple with shattered dreams and carrying on with their lives, a decade on.

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In the Dark: How Kashmir's Pellet Gun Victims Navigate a World That Forgot Them

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