Journalist rasheed kidwais book on the congress 24 akbar road, aarthi ramachandrans biography of rahul gandhi and rahul panditas work on maoists, bastar calling, are some of the other books on the anvil. But peer said he was happy with his decision not to attend. One kashmiri journalists frontline account of life. Jul 31, 2019 before him, basharat peer had written his memoir, curfewed night 2009. Rahul panditas recent book our moon has blood clots is also part of this effort, though many people in kashmir disagree with. Rahul panditas recent job was the opinion and special stories editor of the hindu, one of indias leading newspapers. Rahul pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss after having read and loved basharat peer s memoir on kashmir curfewed night four years ago, i couldnt wait to get my hands on rahul panditas our moon has blood clots when i heard about it.
Feb 02, 2017 the emotionally charged debates and discussions following vishal bharadwajs adaptation of shakespearean play hamlet haider has once again brought to the fore how little we know about the state that has far more people outside of it speak of it. Among those writers some are basharat peer, siddhartha gigoo, rahul pandita, and mirza waheed who have shown the very close picture of kashmir to its. Thus many books have been written on kashmir on its sociopolitical situation and on human. He was one of the founding members of the muchacclaimed open magazine and has also previously worked with the indian. In two separate interviews to the hindu and times of india, vishal bhardwaj has made the following statements. Yet authors belonging to both the communities employ similar kind of poetics of dispossession, a term borrowed from anaya jahanara kabir. She drew up on the memories of her father and his siblings, read books nonfiction, not fantasy, she clarifies, books like rahul panditas our moon has blood clots and basharat peer. Rahul panditas book is a must read in my view for every indian who grew up in those times. Nandini krishnan, rahul pandita, basharat peer and kashmirs contradictory stories, sify news, 25 april 20. They were kashmiri panditsthe hindu minority within a muslimmajority kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of azaadi from india. Peter griffin, rahul pandita on kashmir and its stories, forbes india, 8 march 20. Rahul pandita, a kashmirborn author based in delhi, said he hoped it would be.
Fifteenyearold zuni chopra talks about her debut novel, the. For readers who arent familiar with basharat peer, he is also the script writer of the much acclaimed. I would love to read blogs, books, articles by kashmiri women, if you could point me to some. Kashmir, kaschmir,cashmereor cauchemar in a sea of. While rahul panditas book takes you closer into the persecution of kashmiri pandits, bashrat peer s starts as a neutral one in my opinion until the point he starts justifying. Curfewed night is indeed the one that was published earlier among the two books and is one of the first few books to talk about the exodus of 1990. Two books published by kashmiris living in the indian state help to bring. European tradition, says writer basharat peer, it becomes apparent that were at a.
One kashmiri journalists frontline account of life, love, and war in his homeland book online at best prices in india on. Basharat peer s curfewed night and rahul panditas our moon has blood clots. Jaspreet singhs chef 2008, siddhartha gigoos the garden of solitude 2010, basharat peer s curfewed night 2010, mirza waheeds the collaborator 2011 and rahul panditas our moon has bloodclots 20 and are some noteworthy examples of novels composed by authors who choose to identify themselves, among other identity markers. The author, basharat peer, is an indian journalist born in kashmir but currently based in new york. The heartbreaking story of kashmir has so far been told. Until my freedom has come is an excellent collection of short fiction, reportage, essays, news reports, interviews and a rappers song by kashmiris from which the title is drawn, edited by the. It prompts a thinking that in this day and age of india booming that there are still deep, untreated wounds of a community abused and displaced from their homes, running deep. Oct 23, 2014 haider is more basharat peer s curfewed nights than shakespeares hamlet. And the young kashmiri in me never lets go any opportunity to know of the times my land and its people have gone through. Aarthi ramachandrans biography of rahul gandhi and rahul panditas work on maoists, bastar calling. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Words revolve in flame and keep the coliseum heart afire, reflecting orange sunken suns in the secret petals of ruined arches.
Rahul pandita has followed his subject for the last years. Basharat peer can go back to his childhood to recollect the feel of growing up during the birth of the insurgency and the beginning of military occupation. Sonia faleiro wrote four booksbooks, not drafts about the story she had. Agha shahid alis voice literary writing with the color of cultural rhythms. Of the writings that i read which create a new thought, of art that entices me and creates a new life within me. Nandini krishnan, rahul pandita, basharat peer and kashmirs. Thousand apples by sanchit gupta curfewed night by basharat peer our moon has blood clots by rahul pandita munnu by malik sajad. A look at the prominent books of 2011 shows a trend in favour of nonfiction. This paper attempts to analyse rahul panditas memoir titled. Narrative journalism journalism basharat peer sonia faleiro rahul pandita aman sethi samanth subramanian books.
Rahul panditas narrative evokes pathos since the protagonists. The exodus of the kashmiri pandits by rahul pandita. While the books gave me a lot more understanding and insight into lives of kashmiris, women and their perspectives and stories were conspicuous by their absence in both books. Basharat peer, one of the scriptwriters of haider and the author of the acclaimed nonfiction novel curfewed night belongs to this category, and even a prominent former militant yasin malik has acknowledged that militants had targeted the kashmiri hindus in those dark days of 198990 interestingly, there is as much reason to hold malik. Jul 21, 2016 in the midst of the brutality unleashed on the people of kashmir by the state over the past few weeks, there is a small spark of hope. Apr 24, 2014 rahul pandita s book is a must read in my view for every indian who grew up in those times. Some kashmiri writers refused to participate, saying it was a political tool used to promote a false sense of normalcy in the. These writers deployed fiction to narrate the traumatic tales of war by giving a fictional character to the reallife situations.
Before him, basharat peer had written his memoir, curfewed night 2009. Our moon has blood clots by rahul pandita is a memoir of a lost home, of. Together with basharat peer s curfewed night, it makes for traumatic and dare i say necessary reading about a beautiful region mutilated by gunfire. Many years later, i happened to read two books on kashmir, our moon has blood clots by rahul pandita and the second, curfewed night by basharat peer. Peer grew up as a muslim kashmiri and his book can be seen as one approach to understanding the lived experience of indian counterinsurgency mirza waheeds the collaborator is fictional but conveys similar themes. Rahul pandta has written an insightful, and easy to read history.
I would recommend this book, but along with the other 2 this is a good view of life on the border of. After having read and loved basharat peer s memoir on kashmir curfewed night four years ago, i couldnt wait to get my hands on rahul panditas our moon has blood clots when i heard about it. Another reason to read this book was when i read basharat peers curfew it. Buy curfewed night book online at low prices in india curfewed. In contrast, the kashmiri muslim authors like basharat peer and waheed mirza and others primarily focus on the indian military atrocities since 1990s. Thus rahul panditas book presents a heart stirring tale of the sociopolitical ambience of kashmir in the 1990s when brutal violence and an exodus of kashmiri pundits took place. Jan 11, 20 our moon has blood clots is very insightful and gives a firsthand account of experience of the author himself, who was among the exodus of kashmir during 1990, at an age of 14. The god of small things arundati roy though everyone hates her including me, but this book tops every other book. Frontline memoir of life, love and war in kashmir by basharat peer.
Curfewed night, it makes for traumatic and dare i say necessary reading about a beautiful region mutilated by. Our moon has blood clots by rahul pandita is the truth of the life that kashmiri pandits have lived, their exile, their ancestral history, discrimination that has been part of their life, since the 14th century. But he can also bring to his narrative the experience of being a muslim in india outside kashmir, of being a kashmiri in india, and of returning to kashmir as a journalist, a kashmiri. The emotionally charged debates and discussions following vishal bharadwajs adaptation of shakespearean play hamlet haider has once again brought to the fore how little we know about the state that has far more people outside of it speak of it. These writers wrote some of the finest and internationally acclaimed novels which had their subjects the warravaged people of kashmir. Mir khalids jaffna street 2017 is another addition to kashmirs conflict literature. It would have been nice to have had a context in which to place 1995 and the violence that followed had the director also chosen to show another side of the story. For vivid portraits of violencetorn kashmiri lives, read basharat peers curfewed night. This paper attempts to analyse rahul panditas memoir titled, our moon has blood clots and look at the homelessness of kashmiri pandits from the valley. Curfewed night 2008 provided a track for others like mirza.
This book is the story of five kashmiri women who remembered and. Our moon has blood clots, the sunday indian, 14 march 20. Rahul pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was. It was not an easy task to write about the kashmir because it is not about the scenic beauty of. It is written more as a chronology of basharat peer s life than as a history of kashmir. For many in kashmir, the 1990s were a period of brutal, heavyhanded state.
Besides, there are two recent books, one by a kashmiri hindu rahul panditas our moon has blood clots and one by a kashmiri muslim basharat peer s curfewed night, giving us a different perspective each. Two books have been ordered for this course at the nau bookstore, and are required reading for all students. But that still wont suffice in providing complete knowledge of this intractable issue. Kashmirs first literary festival hit by controversy books the guardian. Rahul pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in srinagar along with his family. During 1990, there was mass movement of kashmiri pandits from kashmir to delhi, lucknow, lahore and allahabad, living their ancestral home, their history and culture behind. Rahul pandita at that time was a 14 year old boy witnessing kashmir becoming increasingly. The second book is rahul panditas our moon has blood clots, which explores the experience of kashmiri pandits as they fled the valley early in the.
Other mustread books for newcomers to the kashmir story include the books and articles by. What are the ten best english novels that i can read by. Our moon has blood clots is the story of kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of pandits were tortured, killed and. I recently finished reading rahul panditas our moon has blood clots. Rahul pandita s recent job was the opinion and special stories editor of the hindu, one of india s leading newspapers. These books have perhaps become trendsetters and possibly also lit the spark to motivate other kashmiri youth to document their stories. He quit the hindu citing frequent and childish interventions in edit pages by malini parthasarathy, the ownereditor of the paper.
Though the list of mustread books on kashmir is long and illustrious. Basharat peer s powerful memoir about growing up in wartorn kashmir. In the midst of the brutality unleashed on the people of kashmir by the state over the past few weeks, there is a small spark of hope. After reading this book, i read curfewed night by basharat peer. Midnight children salman rushdie booker of the booker prize, thats all i can say. Jul 25, 2016 rahul panditas our moon has blood clots. Basharat peer like rahut pandita is from kashmir and is an established journalist too.
I admit haider made me pick the book over panditas our moon has blood clots, which i assume has the same base material. Kashmir in fiction, traumatic tales of war by giving a. A memoir of a lost home in kashmir is another memoir on the kashmiri pandit exile that is worth reading. Jul 21, 2018 basharat peer s curfewed night and rahul panditas our moon has blood clots. Thus rahul panditas book presents a heart stirring tale of the sociopolitical ambience of.
Mar 01, 2016 if you want to read an unbiased book on kashmir, i would highly recommend curfewed nights by basharat peer beautifully written, poignant, and rather unbiased. Both these books are set during the same period and tells the story of kashmir with different approach. The names which immediately strikes ones mind are mirza waheed, basharat peer, shahnaz bashir, siddharth gigoo, rahul pandita, nitasha kaul and zamrooda habib. Was reading our moon has blood clots, by rahul pandita. As a young boy, rahul pandita was exiled from his native kashmir. Jan 01, 20 please watch this interview of rahul pandita. Rahul pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in srinagar along with his family, who were kashmiri pandits. Im not antinational, but i will comment on what is antihuman and if i am not a leftist, i am not an artist.
Mar 17, 2016 basharat peer like rahut pandita is from kashmir and is an established journalist too. Kashmir through their eyes south asia program at hudson institute. One kashmiri journalist s frontline account of life, love, and war in his homeland book online at best prices in india on. Kashmir, kaschmir,cashmereor cauchemar in a sea of stories. Peer grew up as a muslim kashmiri and his book can be seen as one approach to understanding the lived experience of indian counterinsurgency. In contrast, the kashmiri muslim authors like basharat peer and waheed mirza and others primarily focus on the indian military atrocities.
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