Our neighbours whom we don’t know
i nam ul rehman Book: Those who stayed: the Sikhs of Kashmir Author: Bupinder Singh Bali Publisher: Manjul India Pages: 285 While reading Siddharth Gigoo’s latest book “ A long season of Ashes ” it came to my mind: why haven’t Kashmiri Sikhs written a book on their survival? Kashmiri Muslims have written on the conflict, so have Pandits. But Kashmiri Sikhs? No way. As I finished Siddharth’s engaging book, I surfed the net to explore my curiosity, and fortunately “Those who stayed: the Sikhs of Kashmir” came up. Written by a 35-year-old Sikh youth, who returned to Kashmir as a PM package employee in 2011, this candid book is a part memoir, and part historical. It is almost written in the same vein as Siddharth Gigoo’s. Bupinder Singh Bali starts the book from a phone call he receives on October 7,...