In the same week that the nullification of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir hit newspaper front pages, an important report was printed in the sports pages. The Real Kashmir Football Club scored a stunning victory over Chennai City FC in the Durand Cup – India’s oldest football tournament. Real Kashmir, a Srinagar-based football club started by a Kashmiri Pandit and a Kashmiri Muslim, is now going from strength to strength, its crack footballers making a mark across India. Real Kashmir FC is a mark of Kashmiri civil society in action.
The success of Real Kashmir attests to what reporters in Kashmir sometimes catch a glimpse of, fleetingly, like a lone firefly at dusk. Behind fortified streets and armoured vans, glows Read More
