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- Location(s): Kashmir
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
‘The night is tired now, the old moon, hanging in the dark sky, is tired too’ It is the 1990s, and Kashmir’s long war has begun to claim its first victims. Among them are Ghulam Rasool Joo, Haleema’s father,...
- Location(s): Kashmir, Srinagar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Mirza Waheed’s extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning to...
- Location(s): Ladakh, Srinagar
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
An epic story of wartime, family secrets and forbidden love, set against the stunning exotic backdrop of 1940s Kashmir. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime… Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time...
- Location(s): Ladakh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
When Patricia accompanies her father, Major George Carstairs, on a trip to Ladakh, north of the Himalayas, in the early 1960s, she sees it as a chance to finally win his love. What she could never have foreseen is...
- Location(s): Delhi, Kashmir, New York City (NYC), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late ’60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young...
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir
- Location(s): Kashmir
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1980s
“Curfewed Night” is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in modern times. Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have...
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
- Location(s): Kashmir
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority within a Muslim majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly agitated...
- Location(s): India, Jammu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In the village of Morha Madana, overlooking the Chenab, the joys of harvesting ripe maize get sullied when, one summer,gun-toting militants of the tanzeem start swarming the hills. As the militants fight in the name of azadi, the villagerslives...