Speaking peace : women's voices from Kashmir

Product Description


This book reflects the range of women's experiences in the Kashmir conflict. The contributions in this book explore issues through interviews with Kashmiri women, personal reflective pieces, extracts from different reports and books. Together they draw attention to a vital aspect of the conflict that has been all but forgotten.


Review


"This is a book which needs to be read for its honest endeavour to capture the voices, the images, the very spirit sometimes crushed, sometimes indomitable." The industan Times. --The Hindustan Times.

This book is a must-read for it gives a human face to a complex political problem. It should be read on both sides of the border. ... Through the testimonies of ordinary and extraordinary women, it brings forth the complexities of a situation where the question of what is right and what is wrong is not as simple as leaders on both sides would have us believe. --The Hindu

...leave no page unturned, no essay or sentence unread. Each word wounds, each story hurts, each incident of molestation and rape angers. And after you put it down, ask yourself this question: how can we even begin to imagine after what has been inflicted on them that they would want to be part of us ? --Outlook India


About the Author


Urvashi Butalia is a publisher, writer and activist. Her publications include 'Women and the Hindu Right' (co-edited) and 'The Other Side of Silence'.