Curfewed Night
After seeing Basharat Peer read from this book during a recent academic event at Stanford University, getting it and reading the whole thing was inevitable. And very rewarding: a powerful, well-written, insightful narrative of how we got to today's Kashmir crisis from someone who grew up in a village as it all unfolded.
One of the best books about a conflict, the human cost, and the compelling need to make peace for everyones sake. The accolades and publisher (Simon & Shuster) and awards the book and writer have received are well-deserved, for you won't want to put this one down. Despite the grimness of the tale, the writer's observations and fitting together of things keeps the spirits up.
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gym-khana
s. This word is quite modern, and was unknown 40 years ago. The first use that we can trace is (on the authority of Major John Trotter) at Rūrkī in 1861, when a gymkhana was instituted there.