In this episode of The Witness, I travel through Kashmir’s farmlands — tracing how land acquisition, climate change, and unchecked infrastructure projects are transforming the valley’s agrarian heart. Through voices of farmers, environmentalists, and old irrigation canals now running dry, this story explores how the idea of “development” collides with memory, belonging, and survival.

🎧 Produced as part of the Bertha Challenge Fellowship.

Further reading: https://sajadrasool.com/land-farmers-and-futures-in-kashmir/