Gulmarg Fashion Show Sparks Row in Indian Managed Kashmir

Last week, a picturesque fashion show caused a great dispute to boil in a snow-covered city in the snow management.

Passenger, known fashion brand Shivan and Narresh last Friday, last Friday, Gulmarg was held in a ski resort to demonstrate ski clothes. The label is the first large, local brand with a fashion show in a picturesque Himalayan area that seeks a decade.

However, this soon became angry with politicians and religious leaders in Muslims in India, Muslims in India in fashion publisher Elleisher Elle India. Locals were also angry with another video – the lifestyle of the online magazine shared a party that shows people who drink alcoholic drinkers in Asia-open air.

Many were born in the Saint Ramadan with a show with a show with the Muslims, Oruj and prayer, and “ignoring the faith” and “to local culture and ideas.” Some clergy called the show “obscene” and said that it was like “soft porn”.

Others, not only the religious conservatism, but also “outsiders”, not only the fear of cultural recommendation. Kashmir has witnessed separatist rebels against the Indian judge since the late 1980s.

Walking, to delete their videos, Elle asked India and Lifestyle Asian. The designers behind Shivan Bhatiya and the label, “The only intention was to note the creativity of the intention, and apologized by saying that he did not intend to hurt religious feelings.

Kashmir – Islamic mystery known as the Saints and Sufi country – has a rich tradition of spirituality affecting many aspects of peoples. Traditional clothing, with local residents – both men and women, often wear a long, empty dress wearing Pheran.

The series also caused a river in a discussion and a discussion related to social media and the show and the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.

The opposition criticized the government by accusing the permission of the event, despite the aware of the local sensitivity. At the same time, Cammü and Kashmir Prime Minister Omar Abdullah removed the government from this event, and asked for special institutions and to investigate the issue of local authorities and submit a report.

“If the law is violated, harsh movements will be made,” he said in Parliament on Monday. Police did not provide information about who and who organized the incident.

The fashion brand did not answer questions about the Permanent Permissions, including the BBC’s show.

Scenic Gulmarg was a choice for a show that emphasizes a ski collection of one of the few skis in India and one of the loved ones with tourists.

Fashion journalist Shefalee Vasudev, designers are not uncommon for fashion demonstrations in subtle places.

In fact, international designers such as Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfeld remember a lot to be for double designs for creativity, theater fashion demonstrations.

However, the experience brings with the risk of arguing, and therefore, it is important to take into account the political and cultural sensitivity of a place, MS Vasudev told the BBC.

This is especially true, especially in a place like Kashmir, which witnesses of wars and the conflict in the decades.

Both India and Pakistan are in full, but control in parts in Kashmir. The Indian section and the establishment of Pakistan in 1947 and the nuclear armed neighbors were carried out two wars.

Since the late 1980s, thousands of people were killed after separatist rebellion against the Indian government. Although the separatist movement lost vapor over the years, many local residents continue to look at the Delhi administration.

These feelings have deepened when the federal government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatya Janata party since 2019.

Thus, some local residents told the BBC that they were not surprised by the reactions to the show.

“Everything in Kashmir is political; people see those who pass through a political prism,” Mir says Professor (surname wanted to protect the identity of his last name). It adds that people are doubtful to corporate events as a fashion show and are organized by private players, but they believe that the government tries to further the culture of the government.

Arshir Ahmad uses more powerful words to express a researcher, public kindergarten. “The government is trying to watch the spirit of resistance in Kashmiris.”

The first incident organized by the non-domestic incident caused controversy in Kashmir. In 2013, separatist and human rights activists in the region protested the show by the famous conductor Zubin Mehta. They gossip The government was attempted to show the world to the world when he was “suffering and dying” in Kashmir.

Some of the latest accidents around the culture and personality can be linked to the increase in tourists from other countries to Kashmir. Federal government frequently connected This boom canceled Article 370, which canceled the autonomy region in tourism.

Nousheeleen Fatima, 34, because of the government messaging, people outside Kashmir see the region as more reliable and “more mastered with India.” However, he claims that many tourists did not respect the culture of the region.

Last year a Video tourists In Srinagar, drinking an alcoholic drink during the ship’s trip to the famous branch of the famous Dal lake was angry with political and religious leaders.

In February, Local residents put posters Srinagarda, “respect” and “respect local culture and traditions” and “avoid drug use and use drugs.”

One editorial MS Vasudev for the sound of the fashion magazine claims to be examined by an anger from a critical lens. Muslims in another Indian city, instead of Kashmir, Ramadan, asks if everything was held in another India. And this is acceptable to hold the show in Kashmir if it is only demonstrated in the manual accepted manual.

It also shows that Kashmir’s “best woolen threads in the world; the best hands, hand-caught Pashmina works and his artists.”

“What is Kashmir creates and cannot be repeated anywhere. Gulmarg should not be a fashion show, and then innovative clothes made with 100% wool are seen as interested in developed roads?” asks.

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