Kashmir’s bat-making industry: Deflating the wind in the willows
In Halmulla in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, larger-than-life pictures of cricket stars such as Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohil, M.S. Dhoni, Shahid Afridi, and Babar Azam line the bat shops on National Highway-44. Fawzul Kabiir, 40, founder of GR8 Sports, is busy inspecting the English willow clefts neatly stacked into a 12-foot-high tower. Clefts, or wedge-shaped…
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