2020 is in its second half and while people around the world are obsessively praying that the misery of this year ends, we in Kashmir are also dealing with the remnants of the traumatising experiences since August last year.

In today’s episode, I will be talking to two people who will be sharing their experience of the last one year dealing with the August 5 lockdown and the COVID pandemic lockdown that has held us in our homes since March 16. For some of us, memories of being home bound since the evening of August 4 has returned while for some waves of hope and hopelessness have engulfed all their dreams.

Towards the end of the podcast we will play our episode’s featured music. So do stay till the end of the podcast because it is by one of the speakers himself.

Title track by Adeeb Shafiq