On the blog The Middle Stage, a review of Basharat Peer’s book Curfewed Night (Random House):
There are many books now in circulation on Kashmir and its discontents, but possibly none as haunting and intimate as this one. Basharat Peer has been a name in Indian journalism for some years now for his reporting on Kashmir for Rediff and Tehelka, but his new book Curfewed Night, a blend of memoir and reportage, is probably the best first-hand account of the region-its beauty, its alienation, and its pain-available to thousands of interested readers more simply and securely Indian than Kashmiris are.
Indeed, Curfewed Night lifts the veil not just from a Kashmir that is no longer a part of mainstream experience and limps along on its own track, but also from an India that many of us are not willing to acknowledge. Here is India as a military power, holding its own citizens-or people that it asserts are its citizens-to ransom in a double bind of ineptitude and brutality.
More here, and here at Pak Tea House:
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