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Over the last three decades Kashmir has been ravaged by insurgency. While reams have been written on it - in human rights documents academic theses non-fiction accounts of the turmoil and government and military reports - the effects of the violence on its inhabitants have rarely been rendered in fiction.

Feroz Rather's The Night of Broken Glass corrects that anomaly. Through a series of interconnected stories within which the same characters move in and out the author weaves a tapestry of the horror Kashmir has come to represent. His visceral imagery explores the psychological impact of the turmoil on its natives - Showkat who is made to wipe off graffiti on the wall of his shop with his tongue; Rosy a progressive jeans-wearing 'upper-caste' girl who is in love with 'lower-caste' Jamshid; Jamshid's father Gulam a cobbler by profession who never finds his son's bullet-riddled body; the ineffectual Nadim 'Pasture' who proclaims himself a full-fledged rebel; even the barbaric and tyrannical Major S who has to contend with his own nightmares. Grappling with a society brutalized by the oppression of the state and fissured by the tensions of caste and gender Feroz Rather's remarkable debut is as much a paean to the beauty of Kashmir and the courage of its people as it is a dirge to a paradise lost.

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The Night of Broken Glass

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  • ISBN: 9789352641611
  • Author: Rather Feroz
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pages: 232
  • Format: Paperback
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Over the last three decades Kashmir has been ravaged by insurgency. While reams have been written on it - in human rights documents academic theses non-fiction accounts of the turmoil and government and military reports - the effects of the violence on its inhabitants have rarely been rendered in fiction.

Feroz Rather's The Night of Broken Glass corrects that anomaly. Through a series of interconnected stories within which the same characters move in and out the author weaves a tapestry of the horror Kashmir has come to represent. His visceral imagery explores the psychological impact of the turmoil on its natives - Showkat who is made to wipe off graffiti on the wall of his shop with his tongue; Rosy a progressive jeans-wearing 'upper-caste' girl who is in love with 'lower-caste' Jamshid; Jamshid's father Gulam a cobbler by profession who never finds his son's bullet-riddled body; the ineffectual Nadim 'Pasture' who proclaims himself a full-fledged rebel; even the barbaric and tyrannical Major S who has to contend with his own nightmares. Grappling with a society brutalized by the oppression of the state and fissured by the tensions of caste and gender Feroz Rather's remarkable debut is as much a paean to the beauty of Kashmir and the courage of its people as it is a dirge to a paradise lost.

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