A family in Kashmir, whose members cannot read, have struggled to understand the implications of testing positive.
![A COVID-positive family in Srinagar, Kashmir, is seen through the window isolating and taking oxygen [Nawal Ali/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Nawal Ali is an independent researcher, journalist and photographer based in Kashmir with a focus on human security amidst state violence. Her prime f... ocus of research has been the Line of Control and the positioning of women in the social and political setting of Kashmir. She is also a communications professional in the development sector.
A family in Kashmir, whose members cannot read, have struggled to understand the implications of testing positive.
![A COVID-positive family in Srinagar, Kashmir, is seen through the window isolating and taking oxygen [Nawal Ali/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
A son whose mother and father were hospitalised with COVID in Kashmir relives his mother’s last harrowing days.
![Umer Farooq Bhat, whose mother died when the hospital she was at in Srinagar, Kashmir, ran out of oxygen [Nawal Ali/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/umer-cropped.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
For those living along Kashmir’s Line of Control, landmines destroy lives and livelihoods.
![A Kashmiri boy with a bicycle walks past a crater caused by a landmine blast, in a photo from December 2004 [File: Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2004-12-05T120000Z_268097703_RP5DRICCXQAA_RTRMADP_3_KASHMIR.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)