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 being burnt, I lost focus and interest in studies. It took a lot of effort for me to maintain the enthusiasm of doing well to score good grades in exams. In the chapter (from my book)
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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.