When the border with Pakistan heated up after the massacre of tourists in Pahalgam, people in villages on the Line of Control (LoC) were badly affected. They have long been accustomed to cross-border exchanges of fire and their lives have always been fraught with risk. But the drones, missiles and artillery shells that rained on them this time around were doing much more damage.
What they were experiencing didn’t make it to national headlines, but they were truly on the frontlines of the conflict. Lives were lost, cars and houses destroyed. Getting out of the villages for their own safety was the only way out, but it wasn’t easy.