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Showkat Nanda

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Jammu and Kashmīr
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Covers:  Politics, gender, human vulnerability.
Journalist, Photographer and Educator, Fulbright Fellow, @mujschool/@mizzou J-School alum

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Showkat Nanda is a journalist, documentary photographer and educator based in Kashmir. He is a Fulbright fellow and holds a master’s in journalism from University of Kashmir and a master's in photojournalism from University of Missouri J-School, Columbia.

His work, which mainly focuses on politics, gender and human vulnerability, has won numerous awards including grants from National Geographic Society, Magnum Foundation and Henry Luce Foundation.

Showkat is a Missouri Photo Workshop alumnus …

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Braving the Winter to Visit a Valley Shrouded in Snow and Secrets

Braving the Winter to Visit a Valley Shrouded in Snow and Secrets

Compelled by stories he'd heard as a child, the photographer Showkat Nanda traveled to the high Himalayas to …

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Project MUSE - Kashmir: A Stone's Throw, an Endless Wait

Project MUSE - Kashmir: A Stone's Throw, an Endless Wait

End Page 43] BARAMULLA, Kashmir-The protests have been raging since last week. The Indian army and police hav…

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A Surge in Tourists in Restive Kashmir, but 'No Mental Peace' for Residents

A Surge in Tourists in Restive Kashmir, but 'No Mental Peace' for Residents

Visitors have flocked back to the region - proof, India says, that its imposition of control worked. But peop…

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Precious memories: 8 refugees share the things they brought to remind them of home

Precious memories: 8 refugees share the things they brought to remind them of home

If you had to leave the country where you were born and raised, what would you bring with you as you begin a …

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Precious memories: 8 refugees share the things they brought to remind them of home

Precious memories: 8 refugees share the things they brought to remind them of home

If you had to leave the country where you were born and raised, what would you bring with you as you begin a …

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Perspective | These evocative images of a Kashmiri valley are a subtle tone poem

Perspective | These evocative images of a Kashmiri valley are a subtle tone poem

Sometimes photos are enough in and of themselves - standing apart from words, not needing them to lend or ass…

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Turismen uteblir i Pahalgam

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By Showkat Nanda Verified
| panoramanyheter.no
Ponniførere er på vei til oppstillingsplassen i Pahalgam, der Adil Hussain jobbet før han ble drept i fjorårets angrep. Et år etter angrepet i Kashmir: I fjellbyen Pahalgam er turismen livsgrunnlaget. Ett år etter at 26 mennesker ble drept i et angrep på turister, står hestene fortsatt klare – men besøkende uteblir. Klokka er ni om morgenen, og ponniførerne står i en løs rekke langs en smal vei ved isbreelven som renner gjennom Pahalgam, en fjellby i den omstridte regionen Kashmir.
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A Year After Terrorist Attack, a Kashmir Town Longs for Tourists

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By Showkat Nanda Verified
| Flipboard
A Kashmir tourist hotspot became a deadly bloodbath. A year on, the pain remains unbearable One year after a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, the families of the victims are still learning how to live with their losses. In the room she once shared with her husband, Aishanya Dwivedi points to a mirror on the wall. "I once asked him why there was no mirror there," she …
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A Year After Terrorist Attack, a Kashmir Town Longs for Tourists

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By Showkat Nanda Verified
| The New York Times Verified
The pony handlers are usually busy this time of year saddling up a steady stream of tourists near Pahalgam, a hill town in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. But as they lined the road that leads up from the valley last weekend, only a few cars passed by. Instead of frenetic haggling over rides into the meadows, there were long stretches of idleness. “We just wait,” said Shabir Ahmad, who has worked here for more than a decade. “Sometimes a customer comes.
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