Neighbors make great friends ? and vicious enemies. This is the subtext of The Ghosts of Kashmir, Shankar Vedantam?s debut collection of short stories about the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Ordinary Indians and Pakistanis in these stories find themselves torn between hostility and affinity, drawn together by common cultural histories and divided by the poisons of politics and pride. The inter-linked stories have the texture of parables, but ...
