At the end of a warren of lanes in Noorbagh in downtown Srinagar, a group of children play on the street, their laughter fills the air. Suhail, barely 10 years old, watches them from inside the half-open iron door of his single-storey house. He should be out playing — there has been a respite from the shutdown. Ask him why he isn’t out and he doesn’t speak. His silence has many reasons: one night in police lock-up, five days in a juvenile home and being booked for rioting, for being armed with deadly weapon, assaulting and obstructing government officials and endangering their lives.
At the end of a warren of lanes in Noorbagh in downtown Srinagar, a group of children play on the street, their laughter fills the air. Suhail, barely 10 years old, watches them from inside the half-open iron door of his single-storey house. He should be out playing — there has been a respite from the shutdown. Ask him why he isn’t out and he doesn’t speak. His silence has many reasons: one night in police lock-up, five days in a juvenile home and being booked for rioting, for being armed with deadly weapon, assaulting and obstructing government officials and endangering their lives.
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