‘Curfewed Night’ by Basharat Peer

Kash­miri jour­nal­ist Basharat Peer was born in 1977 in Seer vil­lage and grew up dur­ing the height of the insur­gency that has left about 70,000 Kash­miris dead. Cur­fewed Night is his mem­oir of this tur­bu­lent peri­od, when the rur­al, peace­ful home­land of his child­hood was trans­formed into a vio­lent hotbed of mil­i­tan­cy and state oppres­sion. […]