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| ISBN | : | 9788184000900 |
| Pub Date | : | 01 Oct 2009 |
| Binding | : | Paperback |
| Price | : | 295 |
| Imprint | : | Random House India |
| Format | : | B format |
| Subject | : | Biography & Memoirs |
| Extent | : | 256 |
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| Curfewed Night |
| Basharat Peer |
Rs. 295
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| Description |
| "‘Beautifully written, brutally honest and deeply hurtful.’ Khushwant Singh.
Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the
following years countless young men, seduced by the romance of the militant, fuelled by feelings
of injustice, crossed over the Line of Control to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to
boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in
Delhi. But Kashmir—angrier, more violent, more hopeless—was never far away.
In 2003, the young journalist left his job and returned to his homeland to search out the stories and
the people which had haunted him. In Curfewed Night he draws a harrowing portrait of Kashmir
and its people. Here are stories of a young man’s initiation into a Pakistani training camp; a mother
who watches her son forced to hold an exploding bomb; a poet who finds religion when his entire
family is killed. Of politicians living in refurbished torture chambers and former militants dreaming
of discotheques; of idyllic villages rigged with landmines, temples which have become army
bunkers, and ancient sufi shrines decapitated in bomb blasts. And here is finally the old story of the
return home—and the discovery that there may not be any redemption in it.
Lyrical, spare, gutwrenching and intimate, Curfewed Night is a stunning book and an unforgettable
portrait of Kashmir in war." |
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| The Author |
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Basharat Peer
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"Basharat Peer was born in Kashmir in 1977. He studied political science at Aligarh Muslim University and journalism "
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