Description:This book is ON Kashmir and Kashmir ALONE.As the title implies, one lakh Pandit families may have one lakhstories to tell. This book, 22 Years, is the story of one suchémigré Kashmiri, Billu, who returns to the beautiful valley ofSrinagar after twenty-two years of self-imposed exile. He notonly breaks a vow, he falls in love once again with the land ofhis birth as all his childhood and growing up memories rushback to hug him and tie him to his roots. Much like Rushdie’sShalimar, ‘There were narcissi from the banks of rushingrivers and peonies from the high meadows growing on hischest...’ At the same time, with memories return all his fearsthat made him flee Srinagar in 1989, ahead of his community,before the secessionist fury of communalism had engulfed thevalley. In Kashmiri poet Ayaz Rasool Nazki’s words: ‘I am theNostradamus of your age. I saw it happen. Before my time.And so was blinded…. They made a mistake. They forgotabout me. I wasn’t awake. I wasn’t asleep either.’Bill Koul was writing his story. This story.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 22 Years A Kashmir Story. To get started finding 22 Years A Kashmir Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: This book is ON Kashmir and Kashmir ALONE.As the title implies, one lakh Pandit families may have one lakhstories to tell. This book, 22 Years, is the story of one suchémigré Kashmiri, Billu, who returns to the beautiful valley ofSrinagar after twenty-two years of self-imposed exile. He notonly breaks a vow, he falls in love once again with the land ofhis birth as all his childhood and growing up memories rushback to hug him and tie him to his roots. Much like Rushdie’sShalimar, ‘There were narcissi from the banks of rushingrivers and peonies from the high meadows growing on hischest...’ At the same time, with memories return all his fearsthat made him flee Srinagar in 1989, ahead of his community,before the secessionist fury of communalism had engulfed thevalley. In Kashmiri poet Ayaz Rasool Nazki’s words: ‘I am theNostradamus of your age. I saw it happen. Before my time.And so was blinded…. They made a mistake. They forgotabout me. I wasn’t awake. I wasn’t asleep either.’Bill Koul was writing his story. This story.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 22 Years A Kashmir Story. To get started finding 22 Years A Kashmir Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.