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Fancy Jan was in the ophthalmology section in northern Kashmir’s Bandipora district hospital when somebody informed her that tensions were simmering in the Indian city of Agra on 25 October. Knowing that her brother Showkat Ahmad Ganie, who studies in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, might be privy to what was happening, she immediately rang him. “I kept calling my brother but there was no response from his side, that is when I began to panic,” the 22-year-old told The New Arab. “Then around 6pm my brother called back. He seemed anxious, saying he was doing fine but requested us to …