A Distant Observation
Khalid Bashir Gura Journalist Shakoor Rather’s debut novel Life in the Clock Tower Valley skims through Kashmir’s uncertain life. It takes off with a 2008 love story, unspools in the city landscape and soon nosedives into the troubled history of the place, the plot is set in. As the new generation, Kashmir has started telling their stories, they mostly revolve around the situations in which they grew up. Rather’s story is no different. It also offers mundane realities and emotions of life, records daily experiences and otherwise ignored observations. As the love story races through ...