17/04/2020
Meet the man behind evocative Kashmir posters chronicling protests against abrogation of Article 370
Musthujab Makkolath (27), a native of Kerala, has been creating the posters with help from Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) since Day 20 of the lockdown
Meet the man behind evocative Kashmir posters chronicling protests against abrogation of Article 370
Today is Day 118. These are the number of days since the revocation of Article 370, which accorded special status to Kashmir in the Constitution. This is the number that gets highlighted in a poster, which comes in stark shades of mostly white and red and black.
In one of the posters, there is an apple that is almost buried in a field of snow; then there is one which depicts a snow sculpture in the shape of Jammu & Kashmir with pale blood on it. And yet another shows a black-coloured Kashmir when the rest of the country is shown to be on the internet grid. On Diwali, in a stark blood-coloured background, there is a black Jammu and Kashmir with a lamp-lit at the centre. There is one for SAR Geelani too, one for solidarity with the Tamil Eelam and another for solidarity with JNU students who are protesting the fee hike in the university.
All of these come accompanied with hashtags like ‘Kashmir caged’, ‘end occupation’ and ‘stand with Kashmir’.
