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Jaffna Street: Tales of Life, Death, Betrayal and Survival in Kashmir - Couverture souple

Khalid, Mir

 
9788129145321: Jaffna Street: Tales of Life, Death, Betrayal and Survival in Kashmir
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 8129145324 ISBN 13 : 9788129145321
Editeur : Rupa Publications India, 2017

Synopsis

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 their lives within the wider adumbrate of history, without losing sight of the big picture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Mir Khalid was born in 1974 in a prominent civil services’ family from downtown Srinagar. He attended the city’s prestigious Irish Catholic Burn Hall School before training in medicine. His clinical research has appeared in the British Journal of Surgery. 

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Éditeur
Rupa Publications India
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8129145324
ISBN 13 
9788129145321
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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