India, April 5 -- Author : Bashir Assad

Publisher : Pentagon Press, Rs 595

Bashir Assad's new book provides a refreshing narrative of the actual situation obtaining in Kashmir, not touched upon otherwise by the so-called Kashmir experts, writes Prof K WARIKOO

Bashir Assad, the Kashmiri writer has come out with yet another interesting and insightful study of Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. To quote Bashir, he has brought out the "bitter truth following his inner voice" underscoring the Islamisation and Pakistanisation of narratives in Kashmir. And he blames the political leadership in Kashmir which remains "mired in conservatism and short-sightedness around Muslimness" for the troubled situation. Competing schools of Is...