• WASIM QADIR

Kashmir is the most volatile issue between India and Pakistan. The conflict took dangerous dimensions after the eruption of militancy in the early 1990s,. The two countries were on the edge of nuclear war as the tensions between India and Pakistan grew. Kashmir was included into the major trouble spots of the world by the international community who advised both Pakistan and India to exercise utmost restraint and start dialogue towards its resolution. Due to the turmoil many youths in the 1990s thought that the solution lays in secession from India, which could be achieved only through an armed struggle turning the whole State upside down in the turbulence. Time and again, Kashmir and its prolonged insurgency make news headlines but since 2008, the literary reaction to the devastating tragedy has gone through a process of revitalisation. The literary response was started by the genius Agha Shahid Ali, who made the literary world perceive Kashmiri’s ability to produce startling English Literature. Since 2008, Mirza Waheed, Basharat Peer, Rahul Pandita, Gangahar and Shahnaz Bashir among others wrote about dehumanised Kashmir, of tempestuous times and the resolute hope in spite of the vacuum that has been created. Every human calamity has a literary reaction and my focus is on the literary reaction to the cataclysmic annihilation of the earthly paradise into horrendous, barricaded, and unacceptable garrison.

Violence, 1990’s, Militants, Brutality, suffering

"Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night: Literary Reaction To The Post 90’S Violence In Kashmir", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.260-264, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905A47.pdf

"Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night: Literary Reaction To The Post 90’S Violence In Kashmir", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp260-264, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905A47.pdf