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Basharat Peer

February 2013

  • Author Basharat Peer in Jaipur

    Edinburgh World Writers' Conference
    Basharat Peer: 'The experience of censorship is as varied as the human experience itself'

    Threats, letter bombs, cover-ups … Basharat Peer describes Kashmir's culture of intimidation in his keynote speech at the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference in Jaipur

June 2010

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    Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer

    The conflict in Kashmir is brought home to Kamila Shamsie in a sensitive memoir

May 2010

  • One to watch
    Basharat Peer: Curfewed Night

    Basharat Peer's moving portrait of Kashmir is attracting huge critical acclaim, from Salman Rushdie among others, reports Hermione Hoby

August 2006

  • Dukhtaran-e-Milat members

    The bride with a bomb

    Yasmeena Akhter is claimed by Kashmir militants as a suicide bomber and a martyr. But was she? Basharat Peer pieces together the story of a young militant and her dangerous love affair.

July 2003

  • soldiers in new delhi

    Victims of December 13

    Eighteen months ago, the Indian parliament was attacked. Fourteen people were killed. But now, more lives are at stake: three Kashmiris accused of conspiring in the attack have been sentenced to death, one of them - university lecturer Syed Geelani - on the basis of two phone calls. Kashmiris and many others are convinced of his innocence. If his appeal, now under way, fails, uproar in the inflammable border state threatens. Basharat Peer reports

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