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| Original Title: | Curfewed Night ISBN13 9788184000344 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Kashmir |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2010), Crossword Book Award for Nonfiction (2008) |
Basharat Peer
Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.98 | 3101 Users | 410 Reviews
Define About Books Curfewed Night
| Title | : | Curfewed Night |
| Author | : | Basharat Peer |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2009 by Random House |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Cultural. India. Politics. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography |
Narrative To Books Curfewed Night
Since the independence of India, Kashmir has been a major concern for not just India but also the world. The issue of Kashmir still is a crucial issue discussed across forums in the global arena and is one of the major hindrances in improving relationship with India’s neighbour and kin of one time. Much has been written about Kashmir and the separatist movement in Kashmir. But the beautifully scripted account of the brutality with which the separatist movement is carried on till date has no precedence. The book, Curfewed Nights, gives an honest, crude, and truthful account of what goes on in the paradise of India which is under the spell of the separatist movement.The author of the book, Basharat Peer, being a Kashmiri himself has related to each and every detail provided in the book from the first hand experiences gathered by him. Since independence of India, many Kashmiri youths have been mesmerised by the terrorism to the extent that they want to join the terrorist organisations even without thinking about their families or themselves. They have illusioned godfathers in the leaders of such terrorist outfits. In fact, the author was sent out of Kashmir by his family, just to keep him away from these painful romances with the militants.
The book, Curfewed Night, has a lot of heart-rending accounts of how a mother watches her son who is forced to hold an exploding bomb or how a poet discovers his religion when his entire family is killed or how the politicians are tortured inside the refurbished torture chambers or how villages have been rigged with landmines which kills innocent civilians, and how temples have converted into army bunkers while ancient Sufi shrines have been decapitated in bomb blasts.
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The book starts off well, with the narration of childhood memories from the author and tries to give a glimpse of life in Kashmir. But as the story progresses, it becomes increasingly one-sided and biased.I'm saying this not because I'm the kind of person who can't read bad things about her country even if it's true; I'm saying this becasue there is no proper justification given for the origin of those sentiments.For ex: The author says, "Despite the rather sleepy existence of our village and myIt hurt.Won't write more.Don't read it as just another book.Read it only if you are ready to face the reality.Don't read and forget. Read and keep reading again and remember it before posting stupid status updates from the comfort of your air conditioned rooms and offices.I highly recommend it to everyone. But don't expect a joyous roller coaster. Thanks Shafi for the recommendation and Swayam for the gift.
I started my year with Curfewed Night. The book by Basharat Peer is blunt about the turmoil of Kashmiri people and its anti Indian stand. It may hurt a few sentiments here and there, but it is what it is in Kashmir. Kashmir, a princely state, was unfortunately straddling between the most politically sensitive states (to-be-countries). After tribal attacks from the Pakistani tribes, the Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh, chose to sign a treaty of accession with India and also demanded a referendum
A must read for every Indian. The Kashmir story told by a Kashmiri. Breaks many presumptions Indians generally have about the Kashmir problem and the Indian army.A war may or may not bring glory, but it surely does leave lives shattered, minds debilitated and sometimes souls repented. More so, if it goes on for years after years. Deeply moving and disturbing stories of all of them- Muslim youths who joined the militancy, dreamed of Azaadi but died young labelled as terrorists; Hindu Pandits who
I had a really tough time with this book. It lurked on my bookshelf for so long because I used to pick it up, read a few pages, put it down and pick up another book. It was extremely difficult to finish reading it. Was it so bad? No it wasn't. Was it so painful? It was painful but that was not the reason why I didn't feel like reading it. The real reason was that I think as always when the story of a state/country is told, it is a one-sided view. And since this one-sided view showed a lot of
Certainly a better book written by a Kashmiri guy who once evolved from 'want to be' militant to be an aspiring writer and journalist.Basharat Peer belongs to upper middle class educated family. Intelligently raised by his father and grandfather, Peer tremendously narrated neutral account of every day life of people who lose their sons. A lot of youth is encouraged to fight for armed groups and some of them somehow manage to turn back their lives.What I love about this book is that it didn't
Though I intended to read it earlier, Basharat Peer's book went mainstream after the release of 'Haider'. I admit 'Haider' made me pick the book over Pandita's 'Our moon has blood clots', which I assume has the same base material. 'Curfewed Night' is a disappointing book. It is written more as a chronology of Basharat Peer's life than as a history of Kashmir. It thus, reads like an overlong blog post. Even so, Peer's experiences are interesting enough to be readable. It is also difficult to not
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