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The Fifth Floor: My Return to Kashmir

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Dal Lake, Srinagar

11/03/2016 GMT

My Return to Kashmir

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Zubair Ahmed revisits Kashmir's Hindu Pandits who fled their homeland over 20 years ago

Revisiting Kashmir's Pandits 20 years on; Brazil highs and lows; Ethiopian jazz; and a silent eclipse in Indonesia

BBC Hindi's Zubair Ahmed was a young journalist writing for the Times of India in the early 1990s.  During that time he went to Indian-administered Kashmir several times to report on the mass migration of Hindu Kashmiri Pandits from the valley.  It was a time of militancy, which in January 1990 erupted in violence against the Pandits.  Last month Zubair returned after more than 20 years to revisit the area and he shares his impressions. 

A Total Eclipse in Indonesia
Indonesians have celebrated Nyepi, the Balinese Hindu New Year - known as 'the day of silence' - in style: with a total eclipse of the sun.  Many people took advantage of the national public holiday to travel to the best vantage point for the eclipse, which plunged parts of the country into total darkness. BBC Indonesian's Kiki Siregar takes us through a dramatic day.

Mulatu Astatke: The Father of Ethio-jazz
BBC Africa's Hewete Haileselassie and Manuel Toledo discuss the music and legacy of Ethiopian musician and arranger Mulatu Astatke, known as the father of Ethio-jazz - a fusion of traditional Ethiopian styles of music, with funk, jazz and soul.  

Brazil: The Country of the Future
Two short years ago Brazil was flying high with a booming economy, a popular president and the football World Cup about to arrive on its shores. Since then, sporting, political and economic reversals have hit the nation, and now the Zika virus is causing widespread concern.  BBC Brasil's Paula Adamo Idoeta tells the Fifth Floor why the outlook of the nation has become a little less optimistic since 2014.

The Return of BBC Chinese
For the first time in six years, BBC Chinese has been permitted to report from the National People's Congress in Beijing, where the country's political and economic agenda is thrashed out. Jiangchuan Wu is there for the BBC, and he tells us about other important stories he is been covering - like the over-capacity in Chinese industry.

I Don't Like Cricket...I love it
As the T20 World Cup gets into full swing, the Fifth Floor hears why passion for the sport runs deep amongst the BBC Language Services. 

And Fifi Haroon rounds up some of the week's stranger internet offerings.

(Photo: A boat on Dal Lake, Srinagar. Credit: Zubair Ahmed)

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