We wished to avoid the more obvious images of war, of the destruction of a city that looks like such a civilised paradise in Nancy Dupree's old guidebooks, but it was hard.
All the people we have profiled once, and now go back to—know something of the tenacious desire to speak, and be heard, in their very individual languages.
This is the first spot report from the sensitive Turtuk Sector where there has been a blanket ban on the media since the war began. Ishan Joshi and photographer Gauri Gill smuggled in and out to report on a harsh mountain war. Given the army's securi