FLAMING FOREST, WOUNDED VALLEY : Stories From Bastar and Kashmir

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  • Author : Freny Manecksha
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Speaking Tiger
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9789354472510

What happened when a siege was laid in Kashmir? Coils of razor wire were unrolled, creating martial units to be manned by security forces, and mobile phones and the internet were cut off. How did communities withstand the months and months of shutdown? What happened when a beautiful and vast meadow where pastoral communities have taken their animals to graze for centuries, was leased out as an artillery firing ground? People lost their limbs, even their lives and watched in horror as a flock of sheep got blown up. Children cowered in classrooms as guns boomed and shells exploded in a firing exercise. How did people reclaim this ground?

About the Author

Freny Manecksha is an independent journalist from Mumbai who began her journalism career working with the tabloid Blitz. She has also worked with The Times of India, Mid-Day and Indian Express. She left mainstream journalism after some 20-odd years to pursue her areas of interest which include development, gender and human rights. For the past eleven years, she has travelled and written extensively on people’s struggles from Kashmir and Chhattisgarh and has been published in Himal South Asian, TheWire, Raiot and PARI. She is the author of Behold, I Shine Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children.

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