“Life in the Disputed Territory of Kashmir Under the Coronavirus”

Photo by Sharafat Ali / VII Mentor Program. Amid heavy snowfall, and bone penetrating cold, a paramedic contacts a doctor after my friends' father, Mohammad Shafi Gojri, died on the way to the hospital due to sudden cardiac arrest on January 1, 2021.

VII Mentor Program photographer Sharafat Ali’s long-term project “This is Normal,” about life in Indian-administered Kashmir during the coronavirus crisis, has been featured in The Washington Post.