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inam ul rehman Baramulla is a haunting thriller and different from The Kashmir Files . We know Pandits were driven out from Kashmir, but produced and written by Pandits, the movie itself is empathetic to characters. It does not weaponise that deracination.   Any Muslim who stands for Pandits in the movie is shot dead.   The director weaves the story with supernatural and psychological elements, reminiscent of Ram Gopal Verma ’s Raat movie, but does not match its eeriness. It is an emotional, socio-political allegorical movie directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale. The film uses the allegory of ghosts and families to depict the inner conflict of Kashmiris struggling with its past. Set in 2016, it shows the complexity of Kashmiris where the father fights against militants, but his own daughter terms him traitor to the Kashmir cause, an MLA takes oath on the Indian constitution , but his own son is against the same system. The father and daughter, father and son duo, divided ...

Book: The plague upon us Author: Shabir Ahmad Mir Publisher: Hatchette India     inam ul rehman     Anyone familiar with the writing as a craft, not as a talent, will vouch that writing is spine bending work. You give up your cherished things for the craft of writing. But what matters for all writers is how public receives their product.     “The plague upon us”, a debut novel of Shabir Ahmad Mir, is a complex story of Kashmiri characters. It is as complex as the Kashmir situation is in itself. An average reader has to have his attention span stretched to understand this book. It is a thinking man’s book where the author lets his readers to form their own opinions, and judge the characters on their own experiences.     Set in the 90s when Kashmir saw massive armed uprising against the Indian state , all the characters in the book go through many transformations. Be it Oubaid ­–the narrator of stories­– an intriguing person who goes thro...