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The Lion Of Kashmir
Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni, a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life, and of the lives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and treachery, and right and wrong. Award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Lion of Kashmir is not just a story of a father and daughter’s intrepid struggles in Kashmir, but also the story of present-day Kashmir itself.
272 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
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Siddhartha Gigoo
11 books26 followersSiddhartha Gigoo is a Commonwealth Prize-winning author. In 2015, he won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia) for his short story, The Umbrella Man. He has written two books of poetry, three novels--The Garden of Solitude, Mehr: A Love Story, and The Lion of Kashmir--, an experimental fiction--Love in the Time of Quarantine--, and a book of short stories--A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories (longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2015). He has also co-edited two anthologies, namely A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of Kashmiri Pandits and Once We Had Everything: Literature in Exile. His short stories have been longlisted for Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize, Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, and Seán O'Faoláin Short Story Prize.
Siddhartha's short films, The Last Day and Goodbye, Mayfly, have won several awards at international film festivals. His writings appear in various literary journals.
For more, visit:
https://www.siddharthagigoo.com
Siddhartha's short films, The Last Day and Goodbye, Mayfly, have won several awards at international film festivals. His writings appear in various literary journals.
For more, visit:
https://www.siddharthagigoo.com
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January 26, 2020
4th book of 2020 (128th book overall)
Quote from the Book I Liked - 'You know what makes people dangerous? When they don't know what they really want. Such people in large number spell the doom for a society.' (Page no. 210)
Rating - 4.5 Stars
Plot Summary - Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni, a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life, and of the lives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and treachery, and right and wrong. Award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Lion of Kashmir is not just a story of a father and daughter’s intrepid struggles in Kashmir, but also the story of present-day Kashmir itself.
My Review - I'm not sure how to start writing the review of this immensely thought-provoking book. This book is divided into 3 parts 'Penumbra', 'Umbra' and 'The Journal of Abdul Aziz'. At first, I didn't give much thought on the 3 titles given to the 3 parts of the book but later on my curiosity made me search them on google, especially the term 'Penumbra' and 'Umbra'. I did know a bit about Penumbra as it was on the news about the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on 10th Jan. 2020. On searching, I got to know that these both are the natural phenomenon where, in Penumbra, the earth cast a partial shadow over the moon when the earth comes between the Sun and the Moon. While, the Umbra, is when the Earth casts a full shadow over the moon when the earth is between the sun and the moon. The author, Kudos to him and his talent for writing, used this natural phenomenon to show and describe the internal mindset or shall I say the mental ongoings of the Poignant Zooni. In the first part, Penumbra, Zooni being in London is rushing back to her hometown in Kashmir after she received an urgent message from her Uncle Dar. In this part, she is constantly shown between a wakeful and Nightmarish state. The writing is so good that sometimes I wasn't even able to distinguish that what I'm reading is actually her dreamy state or is she awake. In the second part, Umbra, She is completely in her Nightmarish state. She dreams of her brother Zubair, her father and all the times they spent in the valley and what all wrong could've happened to her father in her absence when she was in London and where is he now? The nightmare is written so intuitively that one can actually fall for them as real and the dream state described by the author is the best interpretation of dream state I've ever read so far. The book is a psychological account of a Native Kashmiri whose father works for the special Forces and is torn between saving the ones who he loves and saving the ones who consider him as their enemy. The situation of a Kashmiri Cop and whole of a Kashmiri described in this book make me wonder what a life the people living there go through. They just don't know what to do and whose side to part with. But at least I think that after the Abrogation of Article 370, the situation of the people and valley will improve drastically and that is what we can hope for.
As also written in the book which refrains one from commenting obsolete content about Kashmir is -
'Kashmir, for the present day militants, is an unfinished business worth fighting and dying for. For us (Special Forces) Kashmir is just a posting to guard the crown. For the ordinary folk (living there) who wake up in the morning and leave their homes to earn a living if it is safe to go out or not, Kashmir is just another hopeless day.' (Page no. 210)
But again, the book tells the story before the removal of the special status of the Valley and the situation may have differed now. I highly highly recommend the book to every person who even has the slightest interest regarding the life in the Heaven of Earth, to read this book and have a different perspective of Kashmir. Applause for the author to deliver a very different approach towards the Kashmir and with such a deep sense of writing.
Conclusion - The theme and the writing of the book will leave you spellbound and awestruck for the skills of the author.
Watch the Video review on YouTube.
Full Review on Blog.
Link to Blog - The Tales of Fugitive Biker
Quote from the Book I Liked - 'You know what makes people dangerous? When they don't know what they really want. Such people in large number spell the doom for a society.' (Page no. 210)
Rating - 4.5 Stars
Plot Summary - Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni, a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life, and of the lives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and treachery, and right and wrong. Award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Lion of Kashmir is not just a story of a father and daughter’s intrepid struggles in Kashmir, but also the story of present-day Kashmir itself.
My Review - I'm not sure how to start writing the review of this immensely thought-provoking book. This book is divided into 3 parts 'Penumbra', 'Umbra' and 'The Journal of Abdul Aziz'. At first, I didn't give much thought on the 3 titles given to the 3 parts of the book but later on my curiosity made me search them on google, especially the term 'Penumbra' and 'Umbra'. I did know a bit about Penumbra as it was on the news about the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on 10th Jan. 2020. On searching, I got to know that these both are the natural phenomenon where, in Penumbra, the earth cast a partial shadow over the moon when the earth comes between the Sun and the Moon. While, the Umbra, is when the Earth casts a full shadow over the moon when the earth is between the sun and the moon. The author, Kudos to him and his talent for writing, used this natural phenomenon to show and describe the internal mindset or shall I say the mental ongoings of the Poignant Zooni. In the first part, Penumbra, Zooni being in London is rushing back to her hometown in Kashmir after she received an urgent message from her Uncle Dar. In this part, she is constantly shown between a wakeful and Nightmarish state. The writing is so good that sometimes I wasn't even able to distinguish that what I'm reading is actually her dreamy state or is she awake. In the second part, Umbra, She is completely in her Nightmarish state. She dreams of her brother Zubair, her father and all the times they spent in the valley and what all wrong could've happened to her father in her absence when she was in London and where is he now? The nightmare is written so intuitively that one can actually fall for them as real and the dream state described by the author is the best interpretation of dream state I've ever read so far. The book is a psychological account of a Native Kashmiri whose father works for the special Forces and is torn between saving the ones who he loves and saving the ones who consider him as their enemy. The situation of a Kashmiri Cop and whole of a Kashmiri described in this book make me wonder what a life the people living there go through. They just don't know what to do and whose side to part with. But at least I think that after the Abrogation of Article 370, the situation of the people and valley will improve drastically and that is what we can hope for.
As also written in the book which refrains one from commenting obsolete content about Kashmir is -
'Kashmir, for the present day militants, is an unfinished business worth fighting and dying for. For us (Special Forces) Kashmir is just a posting to guard the crown. For the ordinary folk (living there) who wake up in the morning and leave their homes to earn a living if it is safe to go out or not, Kashmir is just another hopeless day.' (Page no. 210)
But again, the book tells the story before the removal of the special status of the Valley and the situation may have differed now. I highly highly recommend the book to every person who even has the slightest interest regarding the life in the Heaven of Earth, to read this book and have a different perspective of Kashmir. Applause for the author to deliver a very different approach towards the Kashmir and with such a deep sense of writing.
Conclusion - The theme and the writing of the book will leave you spellbound and awestruck for the skills of the author.
Watch the Video review on YouTube.
Full Review on Blog.
Link to Blog - The Tales of Fugitive Biker
April 30, 2020
It didn't bother me that I picked up the book with least number of reviews and surely the reviews available might not be from the casual readers but from the professional reviewers. What bothered me more was I picked up the book and kept reading as if it has something really good.. almost till 60-70% of the books has nothing to do with the title.. I just din let my stubbornness to go down and kept reading as if something good is really coming.. but book doesn't make any sense to me.. It starts from somewhere, ends somewhere, something happens in between.. dream, magical realism or hallucinations not sure what he is even trying to explain.. random stories come nowhere and takes to nowhere. And simple stories being stretched to pages and chapters..
I'm very much disappointed.. title attracted me but the book really badly disappointed me.. I surely wouldn't recommend it.. No offense I din find anything nice / unique in this book
I'm very much disappointed.. title attracted me but the book really badly disappointed me.. I surely wouldn't recommend it.. No offense I din find anything nice / unique in this book
April 18, 2020
The Lion of Kashmir explores Kashmir through two different perspectives. A father, a commandant in the Special Forces, disappears suddenly. An event like that spells only one thing - torture followed by blood shed. Zooni, his daughter and a human right activist returns home in order to find her dad and take care of her mentally ill brother. What follows is a harrowing tale of loss through the eyes of a daughter trying to escape the clutches of a land divided by multiple philosophies. As she stumbles upon her father's diary later in the story, the narrative changes and we find ourselves deep into the life of the Special Forces, their sacrifices, grief, loss and the hard choice they have to make time and again, in order to survive.
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Gigoo's writing is the show-stealer here. As we drift in and out of reality, the line blurs the entire time. Zooni's life and her deepest fears are lived through both, reality and a nightmare that is as close to reality as possible. The story that is told is different from usual, that is, it doesn't focus mainstream on the people of Kashmir but the armed forces and their messed up psychology due to their collective experiences.
Gigoo picks up a theme that is otherwise unheard of, a story that deserves to be heard as much as every other story of trauma and injustice.
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'The Lion of Kashmir' is emotionally engaging, with a whiff of magical realism and a birds-eye view of the socio-political scenario in Kashmir. The writing is spectacular, the characters well-crafted and a delivery so powerful, it will make you halt from time to time to sit back and just take it all in, one chapter at a time.
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Gigoo's writing is the show-stealer here. As we drift in and out of reality, the line blurs the entire time. Zooni's life and her deepest fears are lived through both, reality and a nightmare that is as close to reality as possible. The story that is told is different from usual, that is, it doesn't focus mainstream on the people of Kashmir but the armed forces and their messed up psychology due to their collective experiences.
Gigoo picks up a theme that is otherwise unheard of, a story that deserves to be heard as much as every other story of trauma and injustice.
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'The Lion of Kashmir' is emotionally engaging, with a whiff of magical realism and a birds-eye view of the socio-political scenario in Kashmir. The writing is spectacular, the characters well-crafted and a delivery so powerful, it will make you halt from time to time to sit back and just take it all in, one chapter at a time.
July 12, 2023
25th Book of 2023
I generally avoid reading books based on Kashmir as I remember reading Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night when I was about 20 years old and couldn’t understand anything about the state. I was too naïve to understand the complexity of this place which has recently been removed from its special status – a journey which has not been very easy from country’s point of view. Somehow, I believed that after all these years following news and current affairs, I must have got aware of the complete situation and picked up a fiction book named “The Lion of Kashmir” written by an award-winning author, Siddhartha Gigoo.
This 260-pages book published by Rupa Publication is typically about the relationship between a father and daughter who are primarily from Kashmir but staying far away from each other. Unfortunately, one day the father goes missing and from here onwards, the daughter Zooni’s character has been developed giving us a bit backdrop into her past so that we can know her better. Author has been able to keep things easy in terms of making us become friends with the characters and understand their rare emotions which we might have not gone through it personally.
Author highlights the difficult situation in the state and tries emphasizing on the fact of how the local people are divided in two ideologies – where few are pro-India whereas few have taken the opposite and unfortunate path of destroying the people favoring Kashmir being a part of India. The book has been divided in three different parts where I personally liked the 1st and last part. The first part is more about Zooni whereas the last part is more about her father’s emotions about his state and love for his daughter.
Gigoo has become philosophical at many parts and I am glad that he made full justice with this opportunity that the story provided him. I liked few paragraphs a lot where you start thinking about life and the raw emotions shared regarding what one goes through in their tough moments.
Talking about the drawbacks, I must say that the book lacks twists and turns. It could have also given book a completely different shape but author doesn’t explore the thriller aspect at all. The book is lengthy and I believe it could have been summed up well in around 150-200 pages itself. Thirdly, the middle section of the book where the character of Zooni imagines things and few characters is such a boring write-up and I had to push myself in not keeping the book aside. It just takes you away from the story and drops you in between of a process which has nothing to do with the tale. Also, multiple to and fro in the timeline confused me as a reader. Author has good writing talent but unfortunately, there are few good points about the book but the not-so-good are many hence I am going with 2 stars out of 5.
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WRITING BUDDHA
I generally avoid reading books based on Kashmir as I remember reading Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night when I was about 20 years old and couldn’t understand anything about the state. I was too naïve to understand the complexity of this place which has recently been removed from its special status – a journey which has not been very easy from country’s point of view. Somehow, I believed that after all these years following news and current affairs, I must have got aware of the complete situation and picked up a fiction book named “The Lion of Kashmir” written by an award-winning author, Siddhartha Gigoo.
This 260-pages book published by Rupa Publication is typically about the relationship between a father and daughter who are primarily from Kashmir but staying far away from each other. Unfortunately, one day the father goes missing and from here onwards, the daughter Zooni’s character has been developed giving us a bit backdrop into her past so that we can know her better. Author has been able to keep things easy in terms of making us become friends with the characters and understand their rare emotions which we might have not gone through it personally.
Author highlights the difficult situation in the state and tries emphasizing on the fact of how the local people are divided in two ideologies – where few are pro-India whereas few have taken the opposite and unfortunate path of destroying the people favoring Kashmir being a part of India. The book has been divided in three different parts where I personally liked the 1st and last part. The first part is more about Zooni whereas the last part is more about her father’s emotions about his state and love for his daughter.
Gigoo has become philosophical at many parts and I am glad that he made full justice with this opportunity that the story provided him. I liked few paragraphs a lot where you start thinking about life and the raw emotions shared regarding what one goes through in their tough moments.
Talking about the drawbacks, I must say that the book lacks twists and turns. It could have also given book a completely different shape but author doesn’t explore the thriller aspect at all. The book is lengthy and I believe it could have been summed up well in around 150-200 pages itself. Thirdly, the middle section of the book where the character of Zooni imagines things and few characters is such a boring write-up and I had to push myself in not keeping the book aside. It just takes you away from the story and drops you in between of a process which has nothing to do with the tale. Also, multiple to and fro in the timeline confused me as a reader. Author has good writing talent but unfortunately, there are few good points about the book but the not-so-good are many hence I am going with 2 stars out of 5.
Thanks!
WRITING BUDDHA
January 31, 2020
🍂The Lion Of Kashmir🍂
Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni, a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life, and of the lives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and treachery, and right and wrong.
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🍂A very beautiful fictional story based in Kashmir, it displayed the actual lifestyle of uncommon people like Aziz, a commander having complex relationship with his own daughter Zooni, a mild character. The book is basically divided into three sections dealing with 3 different aspects of one's life. That's what makes it stand out, for me Aziz is a very deep and diverse character having many layers, each layer is different from the other, he has to play numerable rules throughout.
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The 'Penumbra', 'Umbra' and the thrid part, 'Journal' it actually deals with his perspective towards things. The book is full of emotions as well as action. The language was easy, at times things look more fictional than real but it's all worth it. I will definitely recommend it to everyone, the way the author defined the beauty of the place was amazing.
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Rating: 4🌟
Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni, a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life, and of the lives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and treachery, and right and wrong.
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🍂A very beautiful fictional story based in Kashmir, it displayed the actual lifestyle of uncommon people like Aziz, a commander having complex relationship with his own daughter Zooni, a mild character. The book is basically divided into three sections dealing with 3 different aspects of one's life. That's what makes it stand out, for me Aziz is a very deep and diverse character having many layers, each layer is different from the other, he has to play numerable rules throughout.
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The 'Penumbra', 'Umbra' and the thrid part, 'Journal' it actually deals with his perspective towards things. The book is full of emotions as well as action. The language was easy, at times things look more fictional than real but it's all worth it. I will definitely recommend it to everyone, the way the author defined the beauty of the place was amazing.
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Rating: 4🌟
November 17, 2024
I first got this book for free from amazon on "world's book day" in 2023 along with few other books. That time , I downloaded it in my kindle and kept it for few months before deleting it. I considered it a sub par book and decided to read more famous novels first. This year (2024), I was researching about Kashmir and had read few novels on the kashmir topic . I came to know about it and read few reviews who praised it. So I got this novel . I still regret my decision to read it and wasting my time.
The novel does not make any sense. The main protaganist Zooni is daughter of a senior rank offficer of special force of J&K police force. She retuned from UK after receiveng a message from her father's friend Salim Dar. The novel does not make sense at all. Neither it gives a clear picture of kashmir ( the "curfewed nights" gave better and realistic description of Kashmir), nor it makes sense in fiction wise. Half of times, Zooni is some kind of hallucination, and talking rubbish which does not make sense. All the characters does not make sense. Why there was a pregnant cow in the safe house. How can a child (Zooni's brother) get PTSD at such young age when he had never been in any traumatic situation. Just because ,he lives in Kashmir , does not mean he will get PTSD. There ought to be some traumatic experience.
Whether I am not able to understand the philosophical metaphors or the novel is truely rubbish. While reading the novel, I kept on thinking as why I am wasting my time on this. I had to read it because ,I did not have any other novel that time to read. The novel writer must be on some kind of ganja or LCD while writing this novel. Overall wastage of time.
The novel does not make any sense. The main protaganist Zooni is daughter of a senior rank offficer of special force of J&K police force. She retuned from UK after receiveng a message from her father's friend Salim Dar. The novel does not make sense at all. Neither it gives a clear picture of kashmir ( the "curfewed nights" gave better and realistic description of Kashmir), nor it makes sense in fiction wise. Half of times, Zooni is some kind of hallucination, and talking rubbish which does not make sense. All the characters does not make sense. Why there was a pregnant cow in the safe house. How can a child (Zooni's brother) get PTSD at such young age when he had never been in any traumatic situation. Just because ,he lives in Kashmir , does not mean he will get PTSD. There ought to be some traumatic experience.
Whether I am not able to understand the philosophical metaphors or the novel is truely rubbish. While reading the novel, I kept on thinking as why I am wasting my time on this. I had to read it because ,I did not have any other novel that time to read. The novel writer must be on some kind of ganja or LCD while writing this novel. Overall wastage of time.
January 21, 2020
The Lion of Kashmir, Siddhartha Gigoo’s third and latest novel, grapples with unanswerable questions about the valley. Searching for truth, hope and a peaceful home, it takes the reader through a turbulent journey to see what Kashmir has been like for the last three decades. Through the story of two policemen (and their two daughters), Gigoo’s work allows the reader a close look into human strengths and weaknesses, their courage, fears and greed leading them to a place so deep and dark that they cease to be their ordinary selves.
A reader may find the imagery complicated, but the beauty of this prose lies not just in the intent of the writer but also in the intricacy of his craft. Dealing with a subject as convoluted as Kashmir, where nothing is allowed to exist between two opposite discourses competing to become the truth, requires a fresh script and imagery. This imagery makes the writer stand next to Murakami and Marquez.
https://thewire.in/books/siddhartha-g...
A reader may find the imagery complicated, but the beauty of this prose lies not just in the intent of the writer but also in the intricacy of his craft. Dealing with a subject as convoluted as Kashmir, where nothing is allowed to exist between two opposite discourses competing to become the truth, requires a fresh script and imagery. This imagery makes the writer stand next to Murakami and Marquez.
https://thewire.in/books/siddhartha-g...
April 26, 2020
This was my first e-book ever. So it was an altogether different experience reading this one. Siddhartha Gigoo has divided this book into three parts.
Zooni is a Kashmiri girl who is studying in London. One phone call from her Uncle Dar is the stepping ground of the whole narration. She is both awake and in a nightmarish state of mind. While in the second part she witnesses the most bizarre things in her nightmarish state of mind. The plot is written so well, that I fell for it more than once while reading it. My favourite was the third one, which was the journal of the protagonist's father. It was brutally honest and threw light on the militancy issue of Kashmir and the many pains both the people and Special Forces have fo bear.
The book is a surreal narrative. The author has juggled with the conscious and subconscious mind really well and has managed to strike at the reader's psyche.
Ratings - 4/5 ⭐️
Zooni is a Kashmiri girl who is studying in London. One phone call from her Uncle Dar is the stepping ground of the whole narration. She is both awake and in a nightmarish state of mind. While in the second part she witnesses the most bizarre things in her nightmarish state of mind. The plot is written so well, that I fell for it more than once while reading it. My favourite was the third one, which was the journal of the protagonist's father. It was brutally honest and threw light on the militancy issue of Kashmir and the many pains both the people and Special Forces have fo bear.
The book is a surreal narrative. The author has juggled with the conscious and subconscious mind really well and has managed to strike at the reader's psyche.
Ratings - 4/5 ⭐️
January 21, 2020
The book gives an account of how a Kashmiri Cop is alienated from the local people because of his profession. This book is the story of Commandant Abdul Aziz of Special Forces, Kashmir and has been divided into three parts: Penumbra’, ‘Umbra’ and ‘The Journal of Abdul Aziz’. The narration is initially from the point of view of Zooni, the daughter of Commandant Aziz, who is a human rights activist in London. The narration is confusing as it keeps moving between the past and the present and between dreams and wakefulness and I found it a bit difficult to distinguish between the two.
This is one book that needs to be read with a lot of concentration so as to get the facts clear.
This is one book that needs to be read with a lot of concentration so as to get the facts clear.
February 17, 2020
Pick up the book and read it at leisure. Don't hurry up to finish the pages fast but keep some time aside to feel it, understand it and get pulled into the numerous lives of the characters in this book. The narration gripped me, mesmerized me and made me lose myself among the million questions floating around my mind already.
I don't know how far the situation in Kashmir is accurately described in this book but as a work of fiction it had a magic that would pull me into the deep complex relations at work here. Overall, a memorable read of this year.
I don't know how far the situation in Kashmir is accurately described in this book but as a work of fiction it had a magic that would pull me into the deep complex relations at work here. Overall, a memorable read of this year.
June 14, 2020
One of the worst written books according to me. Why?
Because I was unable to visualize story as the scenes were changing rapidly and they were having no connection as well.
Story is vague and inconsistent, with middle part having zero or no link link to the last part.
In the starting at-least the story is clear but as you go through, you will feel like why have you picked up this book. I was regretting it but as usual after starting the book, you have to finish it.
I will not recommend it to anyone except my enemies.
Because I was unable to visualize story as the scenes were changing rapidly and they were having no connection as well.
Story is vague and inconsistent, with middle part having zero or no link link to the last part.
In the starting at-least the story is clear but as you go through, you will feel like why have you picked up this book. I was regretting it but as usual after starting the book, you have to finish it.
I will not recommend it to anyone except my enemies.
October 12, 2021
The story is set and narrated against such a perfect backdrop. The writer sets out setting his lead narrator. And the story begins...but by mid of the story, when it takes turn to narrate the lives of two main characters, the writers steps into oblivion, haze filled dreams, flash backs, a point where the reader will be left rattled out of the interest to continue. Still proceeding till the end and ended with the same feeling, unfortunately.
April 20, 2020
Amazing - Must Read
As the name suggests The Lion Of Kashmir, there is one lion but along with the read, you will discover quite a few lions. Every single people have their own ideology and from their perspectives, they are the lions in their own field. I believe it's up to the reader who will you choose the lion of Kashmir.
As the name suggests The Lion Of Kashmir, there is one lion but along with the read, you will discover quite a few lions. Every single people have their own ideology and from their perspectives, they are the lions in their own field. I believe it's up to the reader who will you choose the lion of Kashmir.
December 25, 2021
The lion of Kashmir tried to tells us about the menagerie of a Kashmiri family. But, none of the animals could speak on their own. Because, the author not only cut off their tongues but he also ensured they remain in a vegetative state throughout the story. An utterly disappointing read.
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June 5, 2020
A good book on insurgency
Special forces when hired from the local population are often seen as the 5th column. This book has a good plot but meandered into confusing subplots around London lambs etc.
Special forces when hired from the local population are often seen as the 5th column. This book has a good plot but meandered into confusing subplots around London lambs etc.
July 9, 2024
Very thought-provoking and full of intrigues and twists.....
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