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	The Ghosts Of Kashmir by Shankar Vedantam
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Neighbors make great friends and vicious enemies. This is the subtext of
The Ghosts of Kashmir, Shankar Vedantam`s debut collection of short stories
about the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Ordinary
Indians and Pakistanis in these stories find themselves torn between
hostility and affinity, drawn together by common cultural histories and
divided by the poisons of politics and pride. The inter-linked stories have
the texture of parables, but they are fast-paced narratives where questions
of history and politics are subtly explored through complex characters and
dramatic situations. Mirroring the author`s perception of the conflict
between India and Pakistan, many of the stories explore the absurd. The
events, plots and characters appear simultaneously realistic and symbolic û
a literature whose antecedents span from Saadat Hasan Manto to Joseph
Heller.

Pages : 200