The year is 1998. You're a young Kashmiri woman who has just begun studying political science at Delhi University. You wish to become a journalist in the valley once you graduate. The semester break is one right now and you have come back home to your hometown in Shopian.

You soon get to hear from your parents that the local Ikhwan Commander Bilal Rashid has been harassing your family and exhorting money from them. He has been doing this to some of the families in your locality.

You decide to...