*Student, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameenast,
Hameenast-o hameenast-o hameenast’
Translated as; If there is a paradise on Earth,
It is this, it is this, it is this.
The above mentioned couplet in Farsi language has been written by Ameer Khusro in Urdu Language while eulogising the bewitching locale and ambiance of the sinking valley of Kashmir and later on the couplet has been recited by the Emperor Jehangir when he made a foray into this land of once much extolled and magnifying valley that the world calls Kashmir.
Kashmir once a favourite patch of land on this sorry planet is swiftly teetering on the brink of abyss and is becoming an object of abysmal antagonism and abhorrence for the foreigner's eye, as well as to its natives. Kashmir, Alas! is dying demurely along with the creatures in its bloodied lap. Much has been written to paint this horrendous spectacle among which Basharat peer's tour de force,is least neglected. The Novel realistically paints the harrowing and grievous nimbus of Kashmir in 1989 and afterwards. The paper candidly spotlights Curfewed Night as a novel mirroring Kashmir as a novel of disarray and schism.
Kashmir, Locale, Magnifying, Abhorrence, Curfew Night, Basharat Peer
