Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture

Changing Forms of Art in
The Public Spaces of Kashmir

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A burqa clad Kashmiri women walks past a hoarding showing popular film star, Rani Mukerjee endorsing a brand of wrist watches. The initiation of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir saw closure of cinema halls and subsequent ban on pasting film posters of Hindi films and film stars. Although Cinema halls are still closed, however, photos and hoardings of film stars have find a place again in open space of Srinagar.

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