{"id":22543,"date":"2020-09-08T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/08\/schools-out-classes-in-kashmir-held-in-meadows-amid-closures"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T06:15:14","slug":"schools-out-classes-in-kashmir-held-in-meadows-amid-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22543","title":{"rendered":"School\u2019s out: Classes in Kashmir held in meadows amid closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Educators in the disputed region are fighting to keep pupils on track amid repeated lockdowns, curfews and internet blackouts<\/p>\n<p>Asmat Jan, 15, practises her singing in a meadow, against a backdrop of Kashmir\u2019s towering mountains. In front of her, around 50 other children squat in perfect, straight lines. A couple of adults hover nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Education has gone open-air across the valley in Indian-administered Kashmir and this is one of the many makeshift community classes that have sprung up in response to the repeated closure of schools under two separate lockdowns, alongside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/08\/kashmir-communications-blackout-is-draconian-says-un-envoy\">communication blackout<\/a> in this hotly disputed territory imposed in August last year. While political restrictions have eased a little in Kashmir since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/india-strips-kashmir-of-special-status-and-divides-it-in-two\">India revoked the region\u2019s special status<\/a> and degree of autonomy, a brief reopening of education in February lasted only until April\u2019s Covid-19 lockdown brought classes to yet another grinding halt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/sep\/08\/schools-out-classes-in-kashmir-held-in-meadows-amid-closures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educators in the disputed region are fighting to keep pupils on track amid repeated lockdowns, curfews and internet blackoutsAsmat Jan, 15, practises her singing in a meadow, against a backdrop of Kashmir\u2019s towering mountains. In front of her, around 5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,1069,615,59,62,432,1082,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-education","category-global-development","category-india","category-kashmir","category-schools","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22554,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543\/revisions\/22554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}