Bashrat Peer who is currently based in New York after a series of reporting stints with Rediff and Tehelka and after having written for various publications including The Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and Foreign Affairs, recently released Curfewed Night.
It was gifted to me by a dear friend who thought I love reading depressing and sad non fiction books (which might actually be true).
I truely enjoyed reading the book and would reccomend it to all the people who appreciate reading a book that is a result of the author's honest and heartfelt rendition of the stories from his much beloved native village in the troubled Kashmir valley.
In the book, being the author's first, he writes beautifully yet matter of factly about the troubles that besiege the valley and how every man there lives in fear. He certainly has avoided any kind of melodrama or self pity in the narrative while rendering the lived experiences and deeply touching stories of the many unknown mothers, sons, poets and millitants from Kashmir.
Without presenting a political picture of Muslims versus Hindus, or Islamic fundamentalists versus secularists he has brought to light the situation of an agonised people whose lives have been torn asunder by factors beyond their control.
A wonderful and insightful read, Curfewed Night is available at all leading bookstores at Rs 395/-
Many thanks to my friend who picked it up for me :)
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