Farooq of Kashmir
Authors: Ashwini Bhatnagar & RC Ganjoo
Publisher: Fingerprint Publishing
Pages: 330
Price: Rs 699
This may sound banal, but nothing in Kashmir is ever as it appears to be. In the shifting sands of politics in the state, there are so many actors and so many agendas that “kahin pe nigahen kahin pe nishana” (a constantly shifting target) doesn’t even begin to describe the complexity.
The authors, who are seasoned students of politics and society in Kashmir, have tried to weave together all the strands in Kashmir politics through a biography of Farooq Abdullah, the flamboyant former chief minister and National