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A memoir about growing up in India-occupied Kashmir in the 1980s and ’90s shows how the pursuit of a normal life becomes an...

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Farah Bashir , author of Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir that Harper Collins published this spring explains why she is restless and anxious every time it is Eid. Farah Bashir KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Why as a student, you were so unhappy to go to medical school or any other professional course? FARAH BASHIR (FB): After the insurgency erupted against New Delhi in 1989, my interest in studies began fluctuating. At a time, when people around me were getting killed, being maimed and homes were ...

UPDATED: July 7, 2021 14:59 IST Author Farah Bashirs book is a moving love song addressed to her grandmother, Bobeh. Farah Bashir’s memoir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir, is a tender and mournful account of growing up in a land in which, as her dedication puts it, children “know nothing of a normal childhood”. How could they, given that Kashmiri lives in the past three decades have been ravaged by violence that has displaced many and made others prisoners in their own homes? Th...

This Kashmir memoir records the inner lives of those who had to cohabit with violence and trauma Farah Bashir’s ‘Rumours of Spring’ goes inside people’s houses during Kashmir’s conflict. Teenage Kashmiri girls in Srinagar, October 1993. | Luis DOrey / Reuters Farah Bashir’s memoir of growing up in Kashmir in the 1990s is, predictably, what it is supposed to be – a riveting, poignant and visceral account of life in a militarised zone. But it is much more than th...

The Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir that Harper Collins published last month is a stirring account of a girl’s life in 1990s’ Kashmir. Author Farah Bashir is getting rave reviews for capturing a situation that was frighteningly fluid, extremely explosive and painful at personal level.

Farah Bashir Analyses Kashmir Conflict Through the Eyes of a Young Girl "As a teenage girl, growing up in a conflict-stricken territory happened to be a dual struggle: to make sense of the militarisation of domestic spaces and to learn new social etiquette – informed by war – to navigate life." A Kashmiri woman holds a girl as they watch a protest after a gun battle between suspected militants and Indian security forces in Srinagar September 17, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail/File...

Author Farah Bashir, whose debut novel ‘Rumours of Spring - A Girlhood in Kashmir (HarperCollins) hit the stands recently, which looks at her years between 1989 to 1994 spent in the valley, says,

In a Kashmir lockdown, home doesnt translate into a safe place: Farah Bashir ​ By Sukant Deepak ( IANS) | Published on ​ Wed, May 5 2021 7:21 IST | ​ 6 Views   In a Kashmir lockdown, home doesnt translate into a safe place: Farah Bashir. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, May 5 : When she sent a picture of brooding girl, sitting atop a shikara, to Times square, one of her editors commented that it looked too grim to be sent where it would be flashed a few thousand times its original ...

Author Farah Bashir. | Shahbaz Khan When I was around eight or nine years old, Father would pack me in the back of his car – an ochre Range Rover, JKD 7575 – on Eid as he’d drive along with Ramzan Kaak. Ramzan Kaak was Father’s assistant at his clothing shop in Boher Kadal. He was roughly Father’s age, physically stronger, and the most trusted man of our household. I remember seeing the mass prayer congregation that year at Eid Gah where hundreds of men, clad in cr...