In 1991, poet Agha Shahid Ali published Postcard from Kashmir. The concluding lines in the poem, describing the poet receiving a postcard from his native land, still mirror the reality of the region, in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370: “a giant negative, black and white, still undeveloped.” Closer home, at Method in Kala Ghoda, 16 black-and-white photographs in an exhibition titled Exhibit A by Avani Rai document the reality that is distorted and thrown out of context through propaganda today.

Avani Rai PIC/Mohammad Alvani