[Reader-list] The Garden of Solitude - A Novel about Kashmir (Political Turmoil, Militancy, Migration of Pandits and Exile)

[pooja shali]

*The Garden of Solitude - A Novel about Kashmir*

(Political Turmoil, Militancy, Migration of Pandits and Exile)

A novel about loss, longing and separation.

*A power packed fiction and coming-of-age saga on Kashmir* - Hindustan Times

*Coming soon - Rupa and Co.*
*From the Blurb:*

*Kashmir 1990: The vortex of armed insurgency and political turmoil.
Protests, military crackdowns, deaths and devastation. Suspicion, mistrust
and betrayal divide the Muslims and the Pandits.*
*Exodus of hundreds of thousands of Pandits from their homeland is unmourned
by the world.
*.............
Story of Sridar, a Kashmiri Pandit boy, whose family flees Kashmir
reluctantly, and is forced to live in exile, battling deprivation,
alienation and dementia.
Years later, Sridar’s odyssey takes him back to the migrant camps and then
to his homeland in search of stories that are on the verge of being
forgotten by a generation; stories about identity and ancestry. Haunted by
his past, he hopes to find answers to the questions that define him.
............


Join the facebook page for updates on the release:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Garden-of-Solitude-A-Novel/159060100771166?ref=sgm
Recent News:
http://www.asiawrites.org/2010/10/siddhartha-gigoos-debut-english.html