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Kashmir’s internet has been shut down for 5 months

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Indian government shut the internet down in Kashmir in August last year: what this means for Kashmiris living without the internet - and what it says about the world’s largest democracy. Featuring @PranavDixit @mmehraj Links Kashmiris Are Disappearing From WhatsApp The latest crisis between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, explained in under 600 words Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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some of the Hollywood celebrities some big, everyone has been actually using our platform to get authentic

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produced from Kashmir, and that word of mouth was actually helping us build a very, very strong

0:51.9

business.

0:52.6

This is Mujit Muraj but.

0:54.8

He runs a business called Kashmir Box.

0:57.3

I'm the CEO of a startup based in Kashmir that works with farmers

1:02.1

and craftsmen community of almost 2,000 families.

1:06.0

Kishmere Box was named after the region of Jamu and Kashmir, where Mujit is from.

1:12.0

India claims the region, which is home to 12.5 million people.

1:17.0

Kashmir is an offline brand in the world already, with more than 10,000 stores across the world selling Kashmiri handicrafts and produced.

1:25.1

For example, Kashmir, which is the luxury wool, these artisans are earning anywhere between

1:31.5

one to two dollars a day and we wanted to change that and

1:35.0

we wanted to create a platform wherein we could give them direct access to worldwide markets

1:40.8

and internet was a very very very strong tool in that.

1:44.0

So we built an online platform and in the last eight years we have had more than 2,000 families get associated with us

1:51.0

and we have been shipping to more than 50 countries.

1:54.8

Kashmirbox was growing, but then in August, the Indian government did something that put

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