Aadhaa Fauji  (Hindi, Paperback, Ashraf Jamal)

This book doesn’t tell a story, but rather recounts — some past realities, some scattered tales — which have come to us dressed in the garments of fantasy. The events, which our elders once shared around the fire, will now, through my words — refreshed with new hues and wings of thought — take you to that village where ghosts and guns both hang from the palm trees. A place where the lines between jokes, mourning, joy, and pain often blur in a single breath. As I scatter the fragrance of that village’s soil, I’ve made an attempt — to bring the voices of those soldiers to you, whom our society may call 'half-soldiers'... or perhaps — it already does.