India, Nov. 8 -- In recent years, there has been a resurgence of serious writing in English by young Kashmiri writers. For many, the idea of writing, more than just the act of storytelling, is an attempt to take control of their stories and presenting them in all their nuance and complexity without compromising on their political context.

The story of two Kashmiri familiesBorn in Srinagar in 1986, Karan Mujoo's debut novel, This Our Paradise (Penguin, 2024), set in Kashmir in the 1980s and 1990s, charts the journey of two families as they come to terms with the shifting social, religious and political mores around them. The first family's story is told from the point of view of an eight-year-old Pandit boy and the second, that of a famil...