Sunil Khilnani's radio programme on Sheikh Abdullah, part of the 'Incarnations: India in fifty lives' series, has been broadcast on Radio 4. I am posting here the audio podcast. As well as Khilnani's sparkling script, the fifteen-minute programme features wonderful archive of Sheikh Abdullah speaking in English. The US-based historian Chitralekha Zutshi (who is currently working on a biography of Abdullah) is featured, and there's a touch of the rap of MCKash incorporating the riff from Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir'.
Several clips of BBC correspondents reporting in the early years of the insurgency are also used - unnamed, but identified here: the first and last clips are of Andrew Whitehead, there's a brief extract of David Loyn reporting from Bijbehara, and you can just make out Elizabeth Blunt's reporting as well. .
Several clips of BBC correspondents reporting in the early years of the insurgency are also used - unnamed, but identified here: the first and last clips are of Andrew Whitehead, there's a brief extract of David Loyn reporting from Bijbehara, and you can just make out Elizabeth Blunt's reporting as well. .
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