A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir
Ather Zia and Javaid Iqbal Bhat (editors)
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Essays, reportage, poems and stories by Kashmiri writers on life under conflict and occupation.
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Ather Zia and Javaid Iqbal Bhat (editors)
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Essays, reportage, poems and stories by Kashmiri writers on life under conflict and occupation.
Anjum Zamarud Habib (translated by Sahba Husain)
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The prison memoir of Anjum Zamarud Habib, a Kashmiri political activist held for five years in Tihar Jail: daily life, humiliation and solidarity inside an Indian prison. One of the few accounts of the conflict written by a Kashmiri woman in her own voice.
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An ethnography of the mothers and half-widows of Kashmir's disappeared, and of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons: how grief became a form of political resistance.
A memoir of growing up in Srinagar in the 1990s: curfews, crackdowns and fear, seen through the eyes of a teenage girl.
Kashmiri women, and the writers who listened to them, on living through the conflict: violence, loss, displacement and the search for peace.
A novel about a mother in 1990s Kashmir whose only son is taken away and never returns, and her search for him: the story of the "half mothers" of the disappeared.