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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 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 book Rumours of Spring feels s...
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 doesn't 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 doesn't 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 size. Working for an international news agency in Singapore, that was the moment she knew that it ...
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 crisp Khan dress and skull caps, had gathered to pray with their children, who were dressed up in brig...