Volume II Special Issue IV April 2022

Name of Author : Mohammed Junaidh

Title of the paper : A Study on Indian Media’s Distinctive Potentiality in Promoting Peace and Reconciliation in Kashmir

Abstract: Sufferings have always been multi-layered when it comes to Kashmir. There was never a single moment when the valley was void of that historical phase called ‘tough’. From the time of Mughals, through Dogra rule and Partition, till the present day when it stands as the most dangerous dispute point, sandwiched between two nuclear powers in South Asia, which have a long account of enmity and had so far fought two mass destructive wars in 1947 and 1965 over it, the valley had a multitude of factors interrupting and spoiling its peace plans. Having futilely passed through plenty of UN solutions and historic international negotiations, the unrestored peace in Kashmir had left the inhabitants in a permanent traumatic atmosphere. Besides, the journalistic apartheid it confronts now from both the countries concerned, is a massive bombard over it’s already ailing ruins. In a pandemic-crushed age of apocalypse, everything which hits the humanity as a whole, hits the people of Kashmir with extra harms multi-fold. For instance, the catastrophic Covid 19’ could inflict unimaginable distress over the valley. The frequenting floods and snowfalls aggravate the situation. The media which shoulders the responsibility of acting as the decisive factor in the peace process, when do exactly the opposite by misrepresenting them, pushes a gravely frustrated community out of its frying pan to the fire.

Keywords : Reconciliation, traumatic atmosphere, apocalypse

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Page Number : 129-133