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By Shruti Goswami
Updated: May 6, 2020

Pulitzer Award 2020 won by 3 Indian Photographer for their feature photography on Kashmir

Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand the three 3 Indian photographers won the Pulitzer Award 2020 on Monday for their feature photography coverage on Kashmir. Yasin and Mukhtar is from Kashmir valley and Channi Khan is from Jammu. They are working with the Associate Press(AP).

Congratulations to Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and @daryasin of @AP. #Pulitzer pic.twitter.com/SJzGyK3sXq
— The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) May 4, 2020

They cover the region after massive restrictions were put in place by the government following the move to end Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and split it into two union territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. After the virtual announcement of Pulitzer Award 2020 via live stream on youtube, many Indians started congratulating them including the Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi and Kashmir Politician Omar Abdullah.

It’s been a difficult year for journalists in Kashmir & that’s saying something considering the last 30 years haven’t exactly been easy. Congratulations to @daryasin, @muukhtark_khan & @channiap on this prestigious award. More power to your cameras. https://t.co/A7SH5hUEGZ
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) May 5, 2020

Congratulations to Indian photojournalists Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand for winning a Pulitzer Prize for their powerful images of life in Jammu & Kashmir. You make us all proud. #Pulitzer https://t.co/A6Z4sOSyN4
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 5, 2020

The Pulitzer award was first handed out in 1917, and its the most prestigious award in American Journalism.

Yasin said media �It�s not the story of the people I am shooting only, but it�s my story,� �It�s a great honor to be in the list of Pulitzer Award 2020 winners and to share my story with the world. The award left me speechless, i was shocked and could not believe it� Anand Said. �It was always cat-and-mouse, It was very hard, but we managed to file pictures,� Khan told.

.@AP photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand have been awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for extraordinary photojournalism of the crisis and military lockdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir. https://t.co/h0oRgAldpb
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 4, 2020

Thank you Colleagues, friends, brothers. I would just like to say thank you for standing by us always. It’s an honour and a privilege beyond any we could have ever imagined. It’s overwhelming to receive this honor.
— Dar Yasin (@daryasin) May 4, 2020

Dear colleagues and friends I just want to say Thank you and that this award @PulitzerPrizes an honor for us. I could never have imagine in my life time. it could have also been impossible without my family – both at home and AP Thank you for always sanding by us.
— mukhtar khan (@muukhtark_khan) May 4, 2020

Thankyou everyone https://t.co/4Sh4EP9s68
— Channi Anand (@channi_AP) May 5, 2020

Channi Anand — Image Source – AP News/ Anand

Dar Yasin Photo — Ap Pultizer Award Winning Picture by Dar Yasin

Image Source - AP News/ Dar Yasin — Image Source – AP News/ Dar Yasin

Twitter was full and giving warm wishes to the Pulitzer Award 2020 winners of India:-

This is so stirring: Three brave photojournalists honored with a Pulitzer for their work in Kashmir at a critical moment, when Kashmiris couldn't share their own harrowing stories with the world-and where journalists have long faced major struggles. https://t.co/w6cpi44ODR
— Michael Kugelman (@MichaelKugelman) May 5, 2020

Senior Kashmiri photojournalists Dar Yasin and Mukhtar Khan of AP have won a Pulitzer prize. They'll share the prize with Jammu-based Channi Anand. The award is a testimony to the fact that Kashmir wasn't the way it was projected to the Indian public by their news channels!
— Showkat Nanda (@ShowkatNanda) May 5, 2020

Its not just the photographs, its the conditions they took these photographs in, and how they managed to get it to AP with no internet access, no calling facility, during strict curfews in a freakin' 21st century.
They did it so the world KNOWS
THAT IS REAL JOURNALISM#Pulitzer
— Aabru (@sitamgaarheart) May 5, 2020

#Pultizer be ready, there is many more to come. Congrats @daryasin and @muukhtark_khan. Hats off to you for showing the courage in hard circumstances.
— Zakir Javid (@IamZeebhatt) May 5, 2020

They didn't just captured pictures, they captured the reality.
Congratulation to Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand for winning the Pulitzer Award 2020. #Pulitzer2020 #Pultizer pic.twitter.com/mAK3Jimk2F
— SYED NAYER🍁 (@NayerSyed) May 5, 2020

Congratulations. Proud of you#Pultizer https://t.co/kInu6gnwtu
— Krb Saurabh (@saurabhspeak) May 5, 2020

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Pulitzer Award 2020 won by 3 Indian Photographer for their feature photography on Kashmir

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