From 1990 to 2011, the Jammu and Kashmir state government reportedly recorded a total of over 43,000 people killed (According to many human rights groups, this number goes above 110,000 for missing/killed people). Shocking as the government statistics are, human rights activists and lawyers say that the figure of civilian deaths caused by the security forces fails to reflect the true scale of violations by security forces.

Tchær is an attempt to shed some light on the conflict in the hard everyday lives of the people of Kashmir.