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Journalist Shakoor Rather’s debut novel
Life in the Clock Tower Valley skims through Kashmir’s uncertain life. It takes off with a 2008 love story, unspools in the city landscape and soon nosedives into the troubled history of the place, the plot is set in.
As the new generation, Kashmir has started telling their stories, they mostly revolve around the situations in which they grew up. Rather’s story is no different. It also offers mundane realities and emotions of life, records daily experiences and otherwise ignored observations. As the love story races through it, the plot stops the reckless lovers from the public display of passion.
Journalist Shakoor Rather’s ‘Life in the Clock Tower Valley’ gives an insider’s view of life in Kashmir
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May 10, 2021 13:15 IST
Published by Speaking Tiger, it talks about Kashmir’s pristine past, its grievous present and always-uncertain future.
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Published by Speaking Tiger, it talks about Kashmir’s pristine past, its grievous present and always-uncertain future.
A new novel provides an insider’s view of everyday life and emotions in Kashmir Valley through a number of love stories.
Life in the Clock Tower Valley is the debut book of
Press Trust of India journalist Shakoor Rather. Published by Speaking Tiger, it talks about Kashmir’s pristine past, its grievous present and always-uncertain future.
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Micro review: Life in the Clock Tower Valley by Shakoor Rather
Even as another book Life in the Clock Tower Valley emerges from Kashmir, its author, Shakoor Rather says that while many past books have shone a light on the conflict in Kashmir, his debut novel takes a different approach by depicting the .