How many online businesses got shuttered that you know of?

My own for example. I do business online. Everything stopped for a year. Had to pay employees out of pocket because letting them go would mean their families go hungry. In all fairness, I could not do that so took a major hit. Same for restaurants, hotels, travel agencies, everyone doing wfh, tourism, we have a bunch of software development businesses, like huge ones and they simply closed shop and moved hundreds of employees outside the valley. Anyone who couldnt do that, like ours suffered. Simple as that.

> I do business online > Anyone who couldnt do that, like ours suffered.

I'm curious, what business operates online but can't move? Is it a company with large manufacturing that can't pick up and move?

Family considerations. Financial constraints. You dont want to take a loan when your immediate future looks like zero income.

Mh client base is in the valley itself so my moving wouldnt help as my customers wouldnt reach me anyways

If large manufacturing was in Kashmir there probably would be less of the problems there are now

Oh... we did have at one time, probably in 1930's the largest silk fsctory in the world. https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/after-30-years-s...

Sadly political mismanagement killed it.

Other than that the valley is too little for huge industries geographically.

We have dams built on either side of LOC but the governments take majority share of produce/revenue and locality is left with almost nothing so yeah

Here in a G7 country there have been many offline business shuttered this year. Life goes on.

My point was people in India love to sneer at Kashmiri supposed backwardness but kneecapping their ability to do business online is not going to win them plaudits.

Its not just business online. 8 million people includes millions of school children who have not gone to school since 5 August 2019. Then since March the corona happened and they had to stay back again. 1.5 years of no formal education but with a twist. While the world across everyone was on zoom, here in the valley the kids had to suffer because "buffering", no video, only either audio on zoom calls or the teacher snaps photos of Notes and forwards on WhatsApp, students copy that photo and work done. Same for audio messages on WhatsApp.

Point is, we dont know when schools will open but students are being prevented from getting some semblance of an education. I have a 4 Yo kid in the extended family and he's been in school for 8 days only. Hits out at anyone who mentions school.