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Photographs: TARUN UPADHYAY
BROKEN LIVES Top left, Relatives of Krishna, who lost his life, in Banglad; top
right, Gujjars of Jeora farm drive their sheep amidst their charred, destroyed
huts; above, Krishna’s nine-year-old cousin performing his shraddh rituals
duction has fallen by half.
Sitting under the shade of a tree, a bit-
ter Rehmat Ali says, “The government
has played a cruel joke on us by asking us
to go back. Had we not been rearing
cattle, we would have left this place for-
ever and taken up menial jobs elsewhere.
The government should either kill us or
let us live in peace. We are fed up.” He is
accompanied by his cousin’s two young
daughters; all are miserable, for they
didn’t have food to break roza with, and
will have to wait for a hand-out.
In this fresh, fierce round of firing—
timed with the advent of Ramzan—by
Pakistan between May 15 and 23, 12
people had died and about one lakh were
displaced. In all, till June 3, 20 civilians
and 20 security personnel died in border
firing in the Jammu region alone, with
dozens injured. It’s a recurring cycle that
seems to have no remedy.
Indeed, death and destruction of
property, followed by swift fleeing—the
whole experience framed by the deafen-
ing crump of shells—have, to an extent,
been an accepted fact of life for border
residents in Kathua, Samba and Jammu
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