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Vivek Sinha Photographs tell a story. They have an uncanny ability to get etched into our memories along with all their details and then refuse to fade away. And if this photograph emanates from Kashmir, especially from the picturesque Kashmir Valley, then it has the potential to tell a thousand stories, most of which are fictitious though. It was just last year when the image of a stone pelter, Farooq Ahmed Dar, tied on the bonnet of an Army jeep flashed as “breaking news” across news channels and on front pages of news dailies. Within hours stories started pouring in about the excesses of security forces, human rights violations, atrocities being committed on hapless Kashmiris that all the while alluded about stone pelter’s innocence. Detailed accounts have since been presented about Farooq Dar’s vocation 1 , his family and that he was on his way to cast vote when an Indian Army Major “captured” him and went on to commit the gravest human rights atrocity 2 . Barring a few honourabl...