Book Review: Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
Curfewed Night is an amazing memoir by a Kashmiri writer, Basharat Peer. Peer tells his painful life story combined with the sanguinary history of the valley of Kashmir. The book gives a comprehensive insight about the Kashmir conflict in an unbiased way. If you are interested to get an insider's perspective on the conflict then this is definitely the book for you. I have been interested to read this book ever since I came to know about it from a class-fellow of mine. I have a great interest in the literature written about my part of the world, and I have been a fan of Pakistani literature for a really long time. But, unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to read anything on Kashmir and that is beyond sad as I belong to the part of Kashmir that has had accession to Pakistan. It is known as Azad Kashmir. Azad Kashmiris have a really strange relationship with the Kashmir issue, especially those who belong to my generation: They are constantly made aware of its existe...