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Kashmir’s Women Chroniclers
Durdana Bhat
Journalists hold a protest outside the office of the Directorate of Information and Public Relations against the assault on two on their colleagues. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
When Afsana Rashid, started her career as a journalist way back in 2002, as a reporter for
Kashmir Images, there were hardly any women journalists in Kashmir.
“I was given due space in all the news organizations I worked with,” said Afsana, currently working as an assistant professor at the Media Education Research Centre (MERC), Kashmir University. “As an individual, you have to not only create a space for yourself but you have to maintain that space as well”