The unhappy land.

[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi]

A pizza-maker at Café Arabica. A police constable at the Jamia Masjid.

The Delhi Walla is in Srinagar, Kashmir’s capital.

An old woman at the Boulevard. A tailor in Maisuma. A Tolstoy lookalike at the Hazratbal shrine. A steward at the Ahdoo’s.

The faces of Kashmir.

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