The Blood of Kashmir, Part Four: The Rugby Girls and the Restless Resistance

Human Rights , India , Journalism , Kashmir , Politics , War Dec 25, 2018 No Comments

With my stay in Kashmir now approaching its end, I wandered down to the town’s rugby pitch to see one of the beginners girls’ squads at practice. As Waheed Para had promised, it was a great story: a ray of light befitting the beauty of my surrounds.

The girls had only been playing for a week and seemed unwilling to get too violent with one another. “I saw a video online,” one girl told me excitedly. “They were smashing into each other like cars!” They admitted that passing the ball backwards had initially struck them as counter-intuitive. “Catching” made rugby somewhat difficult to master.

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Matthew Clayfield

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