Personalized accounts are a powerful source of knowledge about intricacies of conflict, and violence that follows. Rather than relying on grand theories or narratives, these accounts navigate a reader through the ‘lived and survived experiences’ of violence/conflict. Gowhar Geelani’s book is an attempt to narrate the conflict from the perspective of a person who like most other Kashmiris bears witness to violence unleashed upon them from all sides, and who like many other people has lost loved ones during the last few decades.
There has been a massive shift in the politics of Kashmir after the 1990s as violence engulfed the whole region. The state has been very ruthless, and the media mindless. The young in Kashmir are fighting this ruthlessness and mindlessness. According to Geelani, this book is an answer to those who ask why there is so much anger in Kashmir.
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