Basharat is an 18-year-old soccer player coached by a couple from South America. He has been selected to play in Brazil.
This is his big ticket out of a tiny Himalayan region ravaged by years of deadly conflict – except he is being denied a passport by the government of India that administers the region since 1947. Basharat’s father, Bashir, was a rebel fighter who was arrested and imprisoned for years. He endured torture at infamous interrogation centers of the same government.
According to the unwritten rules in Kashmir, a former rebel’s family is almost never granted a passport – that document of belonging of a country that claims Kashmiri identity as part of its own. Inshallah, football is about the difficulty of dreaming in Kashmir.
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