Inside a Village on the Volatile, Disputed India–Pakistan Border

Prachi, 8, and Preetika Chaudhary, 18 months, outside their home on the India–Pakistan disputed border in village Kalal of Rajouri district in Jammu, India, on Nov. 16, 2020. Venus Upadhayaya/Epoch Times

RAJOURI, India—Surjeet Prakash and Kailash Devi heard a gunshot one morning seven months ago while in their home in the village of Kalal, on the Indian side of the border with Pakistan, which is one of the most volatile, disputed boundaries in the world.

“I ran into my son’s room and asked if they heard a shot fired,” Devi, 64, said. “My daughter-in-law said, ‘Mother, it has hit me.’”