The school had dirt floors and no chairs for the kids to sit on, let alone desks to work at. The 20 or so ninth-graders knelt shyly in formation on the carpet. Hana and I stood at the head of the room ...
There is a curious habit in our national discourse, the tendency to simplify complex realities into convenient complaints. Few regions suffer more from this reductionist lens than Gilgit-Baltistan.