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

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Dear Pooja,

Thanks for sending this on. will look forward to reading it.

best regards

Shuddha

On 22-Oct-10, at 2:13 PM, pooja shali wrote:

> *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.
> ............
>
>
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
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