‘Loal Kashmir’ review: Stories of love and longing from Kashmir
Mehak Jamal’s book, ‘Loal Kashmir’, presents an insider’s view of the cost of loving and caring while living in a conflict zone
“Someone from outside Kashmir—if they have to live here even for a little while, they’d go insane," says Madeeha, a girl from Baramulla, in the story titled, Blue Salwar Kameez in Mehak Jamal’s debut book, Loal Kashmir.
Poets have often called love an insanity, a disease that destroys the one who experiences it, steals their tranquility and sleep; its only reward being the sights, sounds and smell of the beloved. Loal Kashmir takes you into this world of love and insanity told through 16 non-fiction stories, exploring the human cost of conflict and the resilience of lovers in the troubled land we call Kashmir.
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