Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland Book

Curfewed Night is a poignant peek into a Kashmir that the rest of us Indians can't even fathom to imagine. Any political commentator who claims that India is a soft state just needs to look at the excesses of the military in the Valley. I have never been too bothered by politics and I've always wondered why others get so agitated when Kashmir is missing from the Indian map. How can a few missing lines hurt you? And after finishing this book I feel that the rest of India actually have no right to feel any umbrage for a few missing lines on a map. We haven't had military boots shoved into our faces, our neighbours and loved ones haven't been dragged away in the dead of the night by army men, we haven't lost an entire generation of young men fighting for freedom against a state that they scarcely feel any connection to and we certainly don't have the right to make the choice about Kashmir. It's sad how all the conflict zones around the world - Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East all have a similar story - a tale whose origin is very blurred and people no longer remember what they're fighting for. But the book isn't without complete hope, you can almost see peace on the horizon, a hope that this situation will be resolved sooner or later.