Rupture

Description

The book recreates a past of Hindus and Muslims living together in Kashmir. The atmosphere of togetherness is rife. Almost perfect. The stories also return the reader to the awful conditions of Hindu refugees as they began to live in the refugee camps in Jammu and other places of India.
The Muslims back home in Kashmir have their terrible demons
to deal with. While Hindus as migrants are cut off from roots and long for home, Muslims are in a unprecedented mess caught up in the tangles of violence and counter violence. The lives of both are in tatters. Only hope seems to be the memory of togetherness, which may heal.

About the authors:

Dr. Javaid Iqbal Bhat is an academic, writer and a cultural critic. He teaches at the Post Graduate Department of English, SouthCampus, University of Kashmir. Bhat has done his PhD from Ohio University, USA. He is the author of books Mourning Memories:From Amarnath Row to the Year of Dead Eyes (2017), Scars of Summer (2017), Covering a Decade (2007-2017): Reflections on theKashmir Cauldron and Global Affairs (2019) and Calm before the Storm (2021). He has co-edited A Desolation called Peace (HarperCollins). He has published papers in, among others, journals like Third Text and Folklore. He writes columns for the newspapersGreater Kashmir, Daily Times (Lahore).

Rattan Lal Shaant was born in Srinagar in 1938. He did BA from University of Kashmir and MA and DPhil from AllahabadUniversity. From 1959 to 1996 he taught Hindi and Kashmiri languages and literature in different colleges of Kashmir and for a shorttime in University of Kashmir.

Table of contents

• Foreword by Kapil Kapoor
• Acknowledgement by Bhat
• Snow
• The Hunter
• Separation
• Earth
• Fire
• Air
• Water
• Measureless
• Dry Stream of the Camp
• Panjtantra
• Intervention
• Gauri's Div Gaam
• Afterword