“We were expecting to play for the people of Kashmir in the - TopicsExpress



          

“We were expecting to play for the people of Kashmir in the spirit of brotherhood and humanity,” Mr. Bachler said in a written statement. Organizers, he said, “turned this concert into an exclusive, elitist event for a selected, invited crowd and this understandably became a political issue, which is a pity and against the aim of art.” NY Times. Iram Majid, 26, was listening raptly. A teacher, she was escorting a dozen students from a convent school, and she said she felt some ambivalence. Missing from the evening’s program, she said, was any mention of the violence of 2008 and 2010. “The side that no one is talking about is that people have been slaughtered,” she said quietly. “Killing is a small word. People have been slaughtered.”
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 05:34:27 +0000

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