An adoptee writes for her unknown birth mother as she seeks her place in the world, with the history she does not know and the history she holds in her body.
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 â informed by war â 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/Files
Itâs hard to explain the ways in which Farah Bashirâs bookÂ
Rumours of Spring feels special. Itâs an engaging new memoir by a woman who has grown up amid war, bloodshed and those tumultuous years of Kashmir that consumed so many lives and tore so many families apart.