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

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

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.
>> ............
>>
>>
>> Join the facebook page for updates on the release:
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