Rapping Kashmir

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The My Indian Life podcast looks at India through young people’s eyes. It recently told the story of Ahmer Javed, a rapper from Indian-administered Kashmir. Ishleen Kaur met him and other artists during August’s lockdown, and found a generation who feel very separate from the rest of India. My Home Town: Guangzhou Zhaoyin Feng of BBC Chinese takes us to her home town of Guangzhou to eat all day dim sum and smell the flowers. Russia’s military huskies The Russian military has started to train huskies to help with transport in the Arctic near the border with Finland. Gleb Borshchevskii of BBC Monitoring in Moscow has been following the story. Chile’s feminist anthem "A rapist in your path" began in Chile as a feminist protest against rape, but the song and dance performance has now been staged around the world, most recently in London. The BBC's Beatriz de la Pava was there. My Big Korean-Iranian Wedding Hossein Sharif of BBC Persian tells us about the challenges of reporting his own wedding. He recently married Hee Sue, who's from Seoul, and he's made a documentary called My Big Korean-Iranian Wedding. Jerusalem’s new catacombs Jerusalem’s main cemetery is bursting at the seams. One solution is a new underground burial complex, with some graves stacked one on top of the other in the walls. BBC Arabic’s Michael Shuval went to the grand opening to find out more. Image and credit: Ahmer Javed, Kashmiri rapper