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

[Pawan Durani]

Who is the author ?

On 10/22/10, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope this book finally clears some misconceptions on Kashmir among few
> forum members who are almost ready to be 'Suicide Squads' for likes of Syed
> Ali Shah Geelani.
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> <shuddha at sarai.net>wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
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>>> Recent News:
>>> http://www.asiawrites.org/2010/10/siddhartha-gigoos-debut-english.html
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>>
>> Shuddhabrata Sengupta
>> The Sarai Programme at CSDS
>> Raqs Media Collective
>> shuddha at sarai.net
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