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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 being burnt, I lost focus and interest in studies. It took a lot of effort for me to maintain the en...

UPDATED: July 7, 2021 14:59 IST Author Farah Bashir's 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? Those who have not left the Valley live under the surveillance and intrusions of a security apparatus...

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 D'Orey / 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 that. For Rumours of Spring is not only a narrative of living in the neighbourhood of gunfights, pro...