Jammu and Kashmir: The Wounded Paradise by Jawaharlal Kaul (Hardcover)

Description

This book is author’s firsthand experience about Kashmir that chronicles the reasons for its changing nature for decades. Author has looked at the journey of Kashmir from 1940s till 2019 from a very personal point of view while closely touching upon various moments that are otherwise overlooked by writers and general readers. This book aims at finding ways to rebuild Kashmiriyat.Rather than being a socio-political or geographical account of Kashmir, the book by Kaul is an emotional history of Kashmir. It mentions author’s dialogues with the younger generation of Kashmir and how it inspired him to pen the book which not only diagnoses the wounds of the paradise on Earth but also holds hopes and aspirations for rebuilding the place again, and attempts at bringing back its lost glory.