Rupture: Stories on the Sorrows of Kashmir

Product Description The book recreates a past of Hindus and Muslimsliving together in Kashmir. The atmosphere of togethernessis rife. Almost perfect. The stories also return the readerto the awful conditions of Hindu refugees as they began tolive in the refugee camps in Jammu and other places of India.The Muslims back home in Kashmir have their terrible demonsto deal with. While Hindus as migrants are cut off from rootsand long for home, Muslims are in a unprecedented messcaught up in the tangles of violence and counter violence.The lives of both are in tatters. Only hope seems to be thememory of togetherness, which may heal. About the Author Rattan Lal ShantDr. Javaid Iqbal Bhat is an academic, writer and a cultural critic. He teaches at the Post Graduate Department of English, South Campus, 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 the Kashmir Cauldron and Global Affairs (2019) and Calm before the Storm (2021). He has co-edited A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins). He has published papers in, among others, journals like Third Text and Folklore. He writes columns for the newspapers Greater 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 Allahabad University. From 1959 to 1996 he taught Hindi and Kashmiri languages and literature in different colleges of Kashmir and for a short time in University of Kashmir.