Mirza Waheed
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Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- male
- Geboorteplaats
- Srinagar, Kashmir, India
- Beroepen
- Novelist
Journalist
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Besprekingen
Lijsten
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 3
- Leden
- 155
- Populariteit
- #135,097
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 12
I believe the background to the story is the unrest of the late 1980s and 1990s and the Gawakadal massacre of January 1990. I get the feel of an Indian film. Two young people fall in love across a religious divide (Sunni-Shia Islam). He is an artist, highly creative but poorly educated, who turns freedom fighter, she is highly educated and beautiful.
To me the book highlighted the ridiculousness of religious divides, close adherence to societal expectations and an unwholesome desire for power. Without these, many power struggles would dissolve, local, national and international.… (meer)