Fearing escalation, many in Sainth village in the Jammu district near India’s tense border with Pakistan have moved to safer places inland.
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00:00Along the Chennab River in Sainth, a village on India's border with Pakistan, daily life
00:13unfolds under the shadow of conflict. Tensions have spiked since the April 22nd attack in
00:19Jammu and Kashmir, with India blaming Pakistan and both countries exchanging strong words.
00:24Vikram Singh, a Sainth resident said, children are scared, the elderly are scared, everyone
00:33is living in fear.
00:34Vikram, who lived through the 1999 Kargil war, says the fear is returned.
01:01Science headman Suktev Kumar says many villagers have moved away.
01:15We have built our own residence in a different place.
01:22We have built those people, the rest of us are there.
01:26We have also seen it in the 70s.
01:30I've seen it in the 90s.
01:33But I've seen it in the 99s.
01:37But we are there.
01:39And when we get there, we are going to meet each other with the army.
01:43We are not going.
01:45We are not going.
01:46We are saying that we are there.
01:49We will go where we will.
01:52We will go where we will.
01:53We will go where we will.
01:54We will go where we will.
01:55Kumar adds, some have built homes elsewhere, but others remain here.
02:00In nearby Treva, people are preparing for the worse, clearing bunkers and checking emergency
02:05plans.
02:07Treva resident Balbir Kaur said there have been many casualties here in the past due to shelling.
02:13Older residents like Dwarka Das have seen it all before.
02:31He said, during earlier conflicts, we fled to shelters.
02:35We will do the same again if needed.
02:38As Global Pass urge peace, life on the border goes on, uncertain, tense, and quietly brave.