Book Title : Kaash Kashmir: A Play on Love and Loss in the Valley of Fear Author : Rajesh Talwar Genre : Fiction - Drama and Plays ASIN : B072JCY12R Publisher : --- Publication : 2017 Pages : 196 Binding : Kindle Edition Plot : The play opens with a scene in a garden opposite a large double-storey house in which a young teenage boy of school going years confesses his love to a young girl. The boy, Rohan, is a Kashmiri Hindu and the girl, Ayesha, a Muslim. The two families, the Pandits and the Shahs are neighbors. Soon after this profession of love, together with thousands of other Kashmiri Pandits, the boy and his family are forced to leave Srinagar, leaving their house and possessions behind. It is the beginning of 1990 that marks the Kashmiri Pandit exodus. At first the family stays in a refugee camp in Jammu, awaiting the possibility of return, but hopes of return rapidly dwindling, eventually they move to Delhi. Rohan, who is still in school, decid...
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