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KASHMIR - Saifuddin Soz - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle, one of the most prominent voices of Kashmir, Saifuddin Soz takes a passionate and compellingook at the past, present and future of a vastly misunderstood people. Throughout itsong, diverse, distinctive but scarred history, the beautiful and bountifuland of Kashmir has captured the imagination of travelers, kings, historians and nations. From its origins as an ancient civilization, to embracing Islam, to fighting invaders, to ruthless militancy, and the ensuing action by the Indian army; Kashmir has seen it all. Kashmiris fought the Mughals, the Afghans and the Sikhs in the past. However, it was their fight against Dogra autocracy that ultimatelyed to their disillusionment with the Indian establishment. With Pakistan feeding the emotions of deeply alienated and disenchanted people and the Indian government using force and taking a harder stand by the day, this unique culture now stands completely besieged. What is the future of Kashmir, then? What is the destiny of its people? Can there be solution to the weary problem confronting Kashmir? Can Kashmir reconcile with the past for a better future? Can the Valley return to aife of dignity, peace and development? How? Saifuddin Soz discusses these questions and provides credible and implementable solutions to end the grave crisis.

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Kashmir - Gowhar Geelani - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Here is one of the most articulate and well informed of Kashmiris giving voice tohow Kashmiris feel, and what it''s like to live in a pressure cooker.''Andrew Whitehead, former editor, BBC World Service, author and historian''This is one of the most informative and stimulating books that I have ever readabout Kashmir.''Christopher Snedden, noted historian and authorBlending analyses with anecdotes, Kashmir: Rage and Reason is the Valley''s new-age writing, whichtraces, in lucid language, the region''s tortured history, the many facets of Kashmiri nationalism, andthe betrayals. The author has woven together his anecdotes and people''s narratives from groundzero to give us the real picture in all its starkness, minus any journalistic dressing.Written by one of the most eminent and respected journalists from Kashmir.The narrative draws on the many interviews the author has covered and his personalanecdotes.Solid analysis combined with great storytelling.A brave new book on the Kashmir issue, from someone who has himself lived the tragedyof Kashmir.

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Didda - Ashish Kaul - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A girl abandoned by her parents. A disabled princess who fights all odds to become the most feared warrior queen. A woman almost forced into Sati by her trusted prime Minister. A mother whose son brands her as a witch. This is the story of Rani Didda, the forgotten Hindu queen of undivided Kashmir. History is often unkind and cruel to women, especially women who wield power. Trampled by Wars and religious crusades,ies hidden the story of a glorious woman who was considered a harbinger of bad times when she was born but went on to become aegendary warriors saviour of Srinagar, the capital city of Kashmir. Didda: the warrior queen of Kashmir is the untold story of a woman''s rise to power during the tenth century. Theegend of Didda is entwined with aife of solitary struggles against prejudice and patriarchy. She eventually went on to rule the unified Kashmir encompassing theohar kingdom and Kashmir for a period of forty-four years, taking it to glorious heights and making it the most powerful kingdom in mediaeval Asia. The foundationaid by Didda helped Kashmir defeat the dreaded warlord Mahmud of ghaznavi twice.

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Meer - Humra Quraishi - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the 1990s, Husna Hakeem travels to Kashmir in search of a shawl-seller.ittle does she know that she will meet her destiny in the form of Meer, an unconventional, violence-abhorring man who becomes her soulmate. As they create an idyllicife for themselves in Meer''s dunga, Husna cannot be happier. But this happiness is rudely shattered when, on the night she gives birth to their child, she is forcibly separated from Meer and sent back to her hometown. Monthsater, Husna returns to Kashmir, determined to find answers, her newborn and, most of all, Meer. But can she find happiness again amidst the terrible violence that has engulfed the state? And is Meer still the same man she had onceoved so deeply? A novel about the fractured relations and disturbing truths ofives in conflict zones, Meer is also a story of resilience andove.

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Where Three Empires Meet - E. F. Knight - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the spring of 1891, an intrepid Englishman set out on a year-long journey into the inhospitable region of Gilgit, near what used to be called "the roof of the world'', where the three great empires of that century”the British, Russian and Chinese”came together on the map.Setting out from the beautiful valley of Kashmir, E.F. Knight traversed the mountain tracts between the invincible ranges of Hindukush and Karakoram, interacting withocals and experiencing their way ofife first-hand. He brings to his readers the sights and sounds of exoticands”undivided Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit and theands beyond.A fascinating travelogue of colonial times, this book also brings out the geo-political significance of the region and the undercurrent of political strategizing at play amongst the three great empires. Knight''s visit toadakh and subsequent participation in Colonel Durand''s historic expedition against the raiding Hunza-Nagara stand out amongst the many adventures he has along the way.

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Snakes in the Meadows - Ayaz Kohli - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jammu And Kashmir, 1987. In the hilly village of Pathri Aali, whereegends appear true, Aslam and Ashwar, two youngovers, dream of marriage and of good things ofife. But that is not to be. Unable to cope, Aslameaves Pathri Aali forever. Yearsater, as men migrate to Saudi Arabia for employment, Pathri Aali is populated mostly by women and children. Soon they realize the Mujahideen, who guise themselves as theiriberators, are the worst perpetrators, and misery seems inescapable. Ashwar refuses to be cowed down by this reign of terror and is determined not toet it devastate the once-peaceful village. The only one she can bank on is Aslam”and she calls out to him across the distance of time and space, to return andive up to theegends of their village. Snakes in the Meadows is a saga of the onset of militancy, and the suffering and the resilience of Pir Panjal”the "And'' of Jammu And Kashmir.

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Jaffna Street - Mir Khalid - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In 1989, an adolescent schoolboy from downtown Srinagar watched as his elders extricated themselves from university campuses, high-school grounds, handloom machines and farms to bear arms and fight a war of attrition against the Indian state.Twenty-two years on, Jaffna Street was born from his explorations of the human dimension of the conflict appositely termed the Kashmir tragedy. Combining anecdotes, personal memories and extended interviews, the author takes us behind the scenes and headlines into Srinagar city''s "notorious'' perpetually politically charged downtown as well as its upper cityside belt to create a panoramic portrait of recent Kashmir history. He profiles ordinary people”hitmen, insurgents, artisans, failed Marxist intellectuals, mystics, exiles, gangsters and ordinary individuals”who wouldn''t make it even to the footnotes of history but have been crucial first-hand witnesses, participants or victims of some of the important events that marked the tumultuous and violent years of the insurgency.Jaffna Street attempts to trace these individual trajectories by exploring significant events in theirives within the wider adumbrate of history, withoutosing sight of the big picture.

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A State in Denial - B G Verghese - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A State in Denial by veteran journalist B.G. Verghese explores a subject of immense global significance - Pakistan, and where it is positioned in relation to India and the world. After a brisk overview of the events that have come to define post-Independence Pakistan - the battle for Kashmir; the integration of Karat and Hyderabad into India; the creation of Bangladesh - Verghese, drawing from rare archival material, approaches subjects that haveong been contentious - the Indus water treaty, Siachen and A.Q. Khan''s dangerous nuclear forays. Even while analyzing Pakistan''s present-day plunge into internal dissent, self-made jihadi extremism, provincial rivalry and military rule, Verghese offers a gentle way out of the nation''s self-made dilemmas - by encouraging Pakistan to become more than the Indian "other'', and urging it to move away from fundamentalism and embrace the syncretic, Sufi-infused Islam it once knew. B.G. Verghese''sast book is a powerful reminder that the core issue with Pakistan is not Kashmir - rather, it is theack of a clear identity, the absence of a positive ideology, and the reluctance of the nation to fully accept its history.

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Residue - Nitasha Kaul - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Residue is that which remains in us and allows us to regrow, as we move across national borders and move on from events.Named for the revolutionary Trotsky by a missing communist father he never saw, Leon Ali is a Kashmiri born in Britain and brought up by a single mother in Delhi. Keya Raina is a Kashmiri scholar of exile, an insecure immigrant, who collects other people''s stories. Marked by the oppressive history of Kashmir, they meet in Berlin, the city of Cold War partitions and begin a journey of discovery, which reveals to them the story of Shula Farid, the bohemian wife of a staid Bengali diplomat. Through their travels, these two young Kashmiris outside Kashmir find startling truths about themselves in the midst of unwitting identities and multiple belongings, the residue of shared human emotions.A riveting exploration of mobility and affinity across the borders of nation and faith, Residue provides fascinating glimpses of class-stratified urban India, divided Berlin and complications of identity in England. It is a remarkable novel about divided lands and fortress continents, lines inked in blood and memory and the absences they create in people''s lives and imaginations.

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Mehr - Siddhartha Gigoo - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

"Thus, I begin, not at the beginning, but at the end when I had met her for the first time.''Mehr, a Shia woman from Pakistan, falls inove with Firdaus, a youngster from Kashmir. Sundered by an unforgiving border, Mehr writes to her beloved, begging him to meet her. Firdaus relents, not knowing that the two of them are consumed by something far more dangerous thanove and passion. They have caught the eye of Indian Intelligence and stirred the suspicion of one particularly tenacious officer. A deadly pursuit ensues. Theines between betrayal and revenge, deception andoyalty,ove and madness, dream and reality stand blurred.In Mehr, award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo plumbs the depths of obsession in its many forms:ove, patriotism, religion. Equal parts tragic and heroic, the novel explodes the boundaries between people and countries, finding peace amid the chaos of war andove in the shards of desolation.

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Saptarshis - H.a. Padmini - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

"How could Sage Vasishtha attribute such an action to him? Heost control of his senses and, in turn, took water in his palm. Madayanti, who was watching in horror, approached him in one swift movement and held his hand. When Mitrasaha turned his face towards her, she shook her head. "No, myord! What is it you are doing? Sage Vasishtha is our kulaguru.'' Mitrasaha felt ashamed and sprinkled the water on his own feet. At once, his feet became spotted with black marks, and having changed into a demon, heeft the palace.'' How did Gotama win the hand of Ahalya? What is the relation of Kasyapa and Kashmir? How did Vitahavya, born a kshatriya, become a brahmin? Why did Parashurama become a warrior and Visvamitra a sage? How were the two related? Saptarshis answers all these questions. This racy narrative recounts the extraordinaryives of the seven sages”Vasishtha, Kasyapa, Atri, Visvamitra, Gotama, Jamadagni and Bharadvaja”known as Saptarshis. These sages may haveived eons ago but theirives were no different from ours.

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Where Borders Bleed an Insider's Account of Indo-Pak Relations - Rajiv Dogra - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Where Borders Bleed is a keenly observed and anecdotal account of a factious landscape that has long engaged global attention the Indo Pak region. Covering almost seventy years of conflict, it chronicles the events leading up to Partition, reflects on the consequent strife and provides a fresh, discursive perspective on the figures who have shaped the story of this land from Lord Louis Mountbatten and Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. Covering historical, diplomatic and military perspectives, where borders bleed is intrepid, engaging with a range of contentious issues that have shaped Indo Pak relationsn water sharing, Kashmir and Article 370. Equally, it is speculative. It asks would terror have affected the world the way it has, if ''PakIndia'' had been a benign single entity? What if India and Pakistan were to reunite, much like East and West Germany? As the now-largest nation in the world, would the mammoth PakIndia radically change the globe''s geo political framework? These questions combined with the author''s own diplomatic access to rare archival material and key leaders across borders make this a one of a kind book on the story of India and Pakistan.

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Afternoon - Nidhi Dalmia - Bog - Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in theate ''60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young student finding theove of hisife and two young women whoseives intersect with his at different points of time. It is also the story of a Kashmiri Muslim girl who carried memories and impressions of her home state but grew up in Delhi. The other woman, an American Field Service worker from Upper East Side New York, findsife taking unexpected turns on a short field visit to India. Her visit confirms her decision to go to Berkeley instead of the Seven Sisters where she had also got admission because of her academic brilliance. The Cold War mentality and way ofooking at each other had noteft either America or the USSR. Conscription and a highly unpopular Vietnam War were raging. The Establishment in Berkeley and elsewhere in California was as determined as the idealistic students to get its way, which meant crushing their movements. There are threats to these relationships from other interested parties and events. The decisions that are involved in inter-continental relationships. The belief that there is nothing more important thanove. Afternoon best reflects how ourives are shaped by the choices we make and factors beyond our control.