Literature on Kashmir tends to focus on politics, the army, border skirmishes, on India and Pakistan. The very real human beings whose lives the alternately raging and simmering conflict has an inexorable hold on are often relegated to the background. In a State of Violent Peace is an attempt to humanize the conflict through lived experience, and provides new insight into the complex situation in Jammu and Kashmir.There are the stories of Surayya Ali Mattoo and ...
