Rattan Lal Shant’s book deserves to be adapted for picturisation
Book: Rupture: stories on the sorrow of Kashmir Translator: Dr Javaid Iqbal Bhat Author: Rattan Lal Shant Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 144 inam ul rehman For years I have been longing to read a book that makes me experience the Kashmiri Pandits condition in exile. Rahul Pandit ’s much-acclaimed book " Our moon has blood clots ” mostly dealt with Kashmir Pandits conditions in Kashmir peppered with exile ordeals in refugee camps. Siddharth Gigoo ’s “ Garden of solitude ”, which came earlier than Rahul’s book, partly mentioned the ordeals of living in a single tent under the scorching heat. However, nothing comes to mind which tells different stories of the same exiled communities. In a way it's surprising that the Kashmiri Pandits haven’t written a lot on living in exile. Even only Ashok Pandit and Vidhu Vinod Chopra crafted two films— Sheen and Shikara . While the former is not much to be talked about the latter is a b...