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This book is an elegy - depicting extreme violence but written with a careful tenderness - for a Kashmir that is burning. Over the smell of crushed fennel, and the sound of ghazals under falling ‘chinar’ leaves, Shahid Ali’s Kashmir is the war between memory and history, the fear of curfew, providing images that depict the (ongoing) violence to its people that is muted to the world; young people disappearing, returning as shadows and ghosts, while shrines are violated and soldiers/ bureaucrats p
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