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001			22466092
003			OSt
005			20230714091100.0
008			220315s2022 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2022934899
020			_a9780192865083 _q(hardback)
020			_z9780191955556
020			_z9780192688545 _q(epub)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
042			_apcc
082			_a800 SHA
084			_2Colon Classification
100	1		_aShant, Rattan Lal, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRupture / _cRattan Lal Shant, Javaid Iqbal Bhat.
250			_a1.
263			_a2207
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2022.
300			_a144p.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a""Separation"(translated also as 'Rupture' in the original Kashmiri book) is one long love letter to a partially lost relationship. The text resonates with a longing for bonds that were severed, the bonds that had somehow survived in the past. However, with militancy, which hit Kashmir in 1990s, these bonds between Hindus and Muslims were violently shattered to the disadvantage of both. The stories in this collection attempt to reflect and expand on those connections, which permeate collective memories. The characters in the stories are alive to the possibilities of rift and tension in the bonds but they long to maintain them nevertheless. The severance of the bonds also recharacterises these stories as gentle prose elegies to a lost homeland. Nostalgia drives the exiled people to recreate homes and religious icons in far away arid lands in Jammu, But the pain remains. The issue of lost identity, lost home and everyday ties between the two communities are immanent in this collection. Some of the characters, especially the elderly are unable to comprehend the sudden loss of fatherland and the breach in a smooth life. They watch helplessly how lives of young men are derailed. They try to recreate and relive their past. Effects of the sudden separation are visible at various levels between friends, relations, and members of the same societies of the so called "migrants". The hope is that this separation is not permanent but a temporary strain in the eternal human bond. The displaced people bide time till they hope to be called back"-- _cProvided by publisher.
700	1		_aBhat, Javaid Iqbal, _eauthor.
906			_a0 _bibc _corignew _d2 _eepcn _f20 _gy-gencatlg
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c693238 _d693238