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Curfewed Night: a Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir: review

The level of curfewef inflicted on Kashmir over the past several decades curfewsd hard to comprehend. Ghulam Ahmad Peer had great respect for knowledge, loved books and inculcated the habit of reading in the author. By the mids, under Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan ramped up the conflict by sending over the border thousands of ideologically hardened jihadis.

Trips to bookstores, with their shelves and shelves laden with books from warzones, made Peer realize that not enou “I was twenty four, restless, and oblivious to the cold. Peer’s Curfewed Night is an extraordinary memoir that does a great deal to bring the Kashmir conflict out of the realm of political rhetoric between India and Curfeqed and into the lives of Nivht.

First of all,I would say that the cover is awesome. Their works, too, have been highlighted. Militancy inevitably leads to such a vicious environment where compatriots have nothing but suspicion, fear and hatred for each other. Suddenly, he found his Hindu friends stopped coming to school.

Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. I had a really tough time with this book. Show 25 25 50 All.

The author talks about his villagers supporting Pakistan in a India vs. The Everyone wished they had sons instead of daughters It’s a great depiction of the author’s rather personal tale of his life in the militant ‘s of Kashmir.

The author due to his past experiences, is full of hatred and his account may be one-sided and biased. It was extremely difficult to finish reading it. Many people have lifted themselves out of poverty, people from very humble backgrounds are making it to colleges and getting decent jobs, more youngsters are opening their own business and so on. But like the author has valiantly pointed out, local media and the larger world media is just not interested in blaming the largest democracy in the world.

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Men liken him help maintain sanity in a world full of hatred and violence. But the Kashmiri demonstrations faded out after the massacres of protestors like Gawkadal Massacre, which is described as worst massacre in Kashmir history. And here is finally the old story of the return home—and the discovery that there may not be any redemption in it. Among other tragic talesin his moving memoir ,Basharat Peer also provides the fullest account of Gawkadal Bridge masscare and Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani ,who was arrested in winter for conspiring in the attack on parliament, and later acquitted from all the charges against him in October Was it so painful?

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Women who refused to wear the full black chador might have acid thrown in their faces. But, they have mouths to feed at home. I have one criticism for the lack of a better word of the book. The author was a teenager when the militancy started in his home state of Kashmir. And after finishing this book I feel that the rest of India actually have no right to feel any umbrage for a few missing lines on a map.

One of the strongest sections describes how it felt to be a young teenager swept up by a movement with “Freedom” as its cry. The referendum, promised by Nehru at the UN, on whether the state would remain part of India, was never held, either in Indian Kashmir or the western part of the state that ended up under Pakistani control. The author’s father manages to make his son leave the unrest and struggling valley of paradise so that he can finish his education without any disturbance in Aligarh.

Even so, Peer’s experiences are interesting enough to be readable. The author captures the change among the landscape as well as among the local people’s demeanor when common people started to avenge for what the army did to their and homeland over the years, but mostly because of their demand for plebiscite of Kashmir within its own sovereignty.

Hope this writing inspires many others from the troubled and torn Kashmir valley to come up and give voices to their stories. Willingly or unwillingly the common man has to help the militants. Many of these men would have preferred to be anywhere else but in Kashmir.

That’s fine in a word news piece; in a memoir, there needs to be some growth. For anyone who hasn’t heard about this place, it is located between India and Pakistan, and it is absolutely beautiful.

This book is not easy to read, although it’s just about facts and memories of a man living in a place called Kashmir.

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Breaks many presumptions Indians generally have about the Kashmir problem and the Indian army. And after finishing this book I feel that the rest of India actually have no right to Curfewed Night is a poignant peek into a Kashmir that the rest of us Indians can’t even fathom to imagine. That alone is remarkable, given that most books on Kashmir, if they’re not geopolitical or conflict-resolutionary, are accounts by Indian and Western journalists or activists.

I would definitely recommend this book to people who want to know more about Kashmir as well as most Indians, who really have NO idea what’s going on or don’t care. Some of these were the sort of exiled Arab radicals who were at that moment forming al-Qaida in Peshawar. Kashmir caught my interest with the news of death of Burhan wani and havoc state was witnessing.

But five years on, despite occasional gestures from both the governments, freedom is still a distant prospect for the people of Kashmir. The book is not all sadness and murder and rape though. You almost felt relieved until they tied your pants near the ankles and put mice inside. Peer was born in a small village near Anantnag, later to become one of the most militant areas in the valley. Another sinister development is the increasing prominence in the conflict of Pakistani-funded radical groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, which carry out suicide attacks in Kashmir, India and even in Pakistan itself against Sufi and Shia mosques.

Read to be more aware, more knowledgeable about a war that the world has chose to ignore, and to love this life more, to love the fact that many of us are blessed to live in places where there are no constant gunshots or bombings everyday.

Ultimately, Journalist prevails to a writer, i would say. View all 18 comments.

Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer

Overall, you may want to pick up this book if you want to see things from the Kashmir point of view. I treated the book as a book of poetic beauty, much like Kashmir, and thus enjoyed it.

It was addressed to a njght militant leader who had been killed by the security forces, and meant for people glorifying the late militant.

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