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...fictional former American ambassador to India. “Shalimar” opens with India’s birthday lunch with her father, which shows their somewhat strained but loving relationship. Brief but substantial hints indicate that India was conceived in the eponymous nation by Max and a Kashmiri lover during his appointment. Rushdie develops the storyline of the “India” segment in a few short pages before he introduces the main event that shapes the rest of the novel. At the conclusion of the first segment, Max is brutally murdered at the steps of India?...
...India's foreign ministry welcomed Musharraf's offer, and Kashmiri families-some separated from loved ones for nearly half a century-are expected to soon come flooding across the LoC. The devastation they will encounter, particularly on the Pakistani side, is hellish. The stench of death still hangs in a pestilential cloud over Muzaffarabad, the largest Kashmiri city on the Pakistani side. Thousands died in the city, many of them in hospitals and schools destroyed by the 7.6 magnitude quake-on Wednesday, aid officials revised the final death toll upwards in Pakistan from 54,000 to nearly 80,000. Another...
...point of Abdul Qumayon?s life took place six weeks ago. As relations appeared to improve between India and Pakistan, a bus service opened between the halves of Kashmir divided between the two warring nations. An aunt and uncle whom Qumayon had never met, separated from him like many Kashmiri families by the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 and intervening wars, came across to see him in Uri, in Indian-held Kashmir. They had traveled from Muzzafarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, just over the Line of Control that separates the Indian and Pakistani portions of Kashmir. He proudly...
...Aftermath: A Father's Grief As hopes for peace rose between contending nations, nature intervened violently in the life of a Kashmiri family...
...Aftermath: A Father's Grief As hopes for peace rose between contending nations, nature intervened violently in the life of a Kashmiri family...