Viewing politics through a new frame - The Hindu

Photographs pegged to certain days and occasions are usually tethered to the swell and ebb of the particular event being celebrated or observed. Thereafter, they are relegated to the recycle bin only to be replicated the following year on the appointed date.

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Sometimes, photographs escape such summary sentences, provided the viewer is ready to give herself up to new ways of seeing. Then they break free of the ritualistic garb of events and enable you to grasp the deeper dimensions of a long-standing issue, the human bedrock as it were, for long buried under citadels of strategic speak. That is exactly what happened to me recently. Some days ago, a friend emailed me a bunch of photographs she had taken of a public meeting in Srinagar on August 30, observed the world over as International Day of the Disappeared. It is a day on which civil liberties and human rights groups as well as affected families, addressing their governments, highlight the plight of individuals who have become targets of enforced disappearance, a political weapon increasingly used by countries as part of their opaque arsenal to preserve national security from all shades of ‘terror'. A weapon seemingly inured to Constitutional underpinnings and the fundamental rights of individuals to demand due process of law.

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