Book review: A plague called Kashmir conflict
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...