Description
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 city side belt to create a panoramic portrait of recent Kashmir history. He profiles ordinary people—hit men, 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.
Specification
- Product Code : BK8709
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- Edition : March 1, 2017
- Pages : 304
- Weight : 230 gm.
- Size : 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches
- Binding: Paperback
- Author : Mir Khalid
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8129137321
ISBN-13: 978-8129137326
Description
Description
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 city side belt to create a panoramic portrait of recent Kashmir history. He profiles ordinary people—hit men, 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.
Specification
- Product Code : BK8709
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- Edition : March 1, 2017
- Pages : 304
- Weight : 230 gm.
- Size : 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches
- Binding: Paperback
- Author : Mir Khalid
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8129137321
ISBN-13: 978-8129137326
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