The dogs of Justice relentlessly chase those enmeshed in attachment and consuming desire. Shahnaz leaves the legacy of this knowledge to her daughter, but first she learns it well herself, slowly and through much suffering. Shahnaz goes from a fashionable education in Geneva straight into the turmoil of pre-independence politics in Kashmir. One passion leads to another. Through her desperate and unquestioning love for Aslam Sheikh, she becomes involved in ...