Kashmir is, if anything, a land of living and lurid juxtapositions. A place so breathtaking, so overwhelming to the senses, that it seems destined to attract foreign devils, and in some instances, devils who have eyed it for decades. They have created a hell that seems to sink lower and lower, and when India functionally annexed Kashmir in October 2019, it reached a new bottom.

QUESTION: The vivid language ('hell that sinks lower') invites verification of what specific conditions have deteriorated since October 2019 annexation—worth researching concrete details on the ground.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 491