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Sometimes, as in Basharat Peer's important Curfewed Night, it's about making sure all the sentences work.
Red pen blues 2010
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Peer's apology over racist phrase - "A Tory frontbencher has apologised after using a racist phrase during a House of Lords debate."
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Many parents, including Peer's, sent their sons away to finish their education far away from the valley.
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer 2010
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In Peer's village, militants attacked the security forces with Kalashnikovs, and on several occasions Peer and his family had narrow escapes as army convoys were attacked around them and their house was sprayed with bullets.
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Life under political oppression has begun to yield, in the slow bitter way it does, a rich intellectual and artistic harvest: Peer's memoir Curfewed Night will be followed early next year by a novel by Waheed Mirza.
Why silence over Kashmir speaks volumes Pankaj Mishra 2010
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The commander laughed them away, and a few days later Peer's family heard what had happened and intervened.
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer 2010
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But in Delhi, as a student and then a reporter, Peer's thoughts were never far from Kashmir.
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer 2010
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Peer's Curfewed Night is an extraordinary memoir that does a great deal to bring the Kashmir conflict out of the realm of political rhetoric between India and Pakistan and into the lives of Kashmiris.
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer 2010
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One of the most moving moments in this very moving book tells of Peer's inability to visit Kunan Poshpura, the village where Indian soldiers gang-raped 20 women in 1990.
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer 2010
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It is Peer's descriptions of the systematic torture by India of its Kashmiri citizens that reflect most badly on the world's largest democracy.
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