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Dapaan: Tales From Kashmirs Conflict
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About The Bookin This Haunting, Probing Book, An Award-Winning Journalist Interviews Ordinary Kashmiris About Tales Of War In Their Homes And Communities.In Kashmir, Folktales Often Begin With The Word Dapaanit Is Said. So Too Do Local Narratives Told And Retold About The Past, Among People Who Have Lived Through Nearly Eight Decades Of A Bitter Contest Between India And Pakistan.This Is A Story About Stories. In The Hyper-Nationalist Din Over A Territorial Dispute, Kashmiri Voices Are Often Drowned Out. Yet The Region Is Home To Long Habits Of Storytelling, Its Communities Intensely Engaged With History-Keeping. For Centuries, Folk Traditions Of Theatre, Song And Fable Have Flowed Into A Reservoir Of Common Talk. Mythology, Hearsay And Historical Memory Coexist Here Without Any Apparent Hierarchies.By The Time Armed Rebellion Spread Through Kashmir In 1989, Many Of These Traditions Had Died Out, Or Been Forced Underground. But They Have Left Traces In The Way Ordinary People Speak About The Conflictin Their Songs Of Loss, And Jokes About Dark Times; In Fantastical Geographies, And Rumours Turning The Valleys Militarisation Into A Ghostly Haunting. From Partition To The 2019 Indian Crackdown, Ipsita Chakravarty Discovers A Vivid, Distinctly Kashmiri Vision Of Events That Have Often Been Narrated From The Top-Down. Her Interviewees Conjure A Kaleidoscope Of Towns And Villages Shaping Their Own Memories.About The Authoripsita Chakravarty Is An Award-Winning Journalist Who Has Reported On Politics And Armed Conflict In Kashmir And North-East India For A Decade. She Has Worked As A Reporter, Editor And Opinion Writer For National Dailies Including The Times Of India, The Telegraph, The Indian Express And Scroll.
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