Residue  (English, Hardcover, Kaul Nitasha)

I see the book as the author’s emotional connection with the land which has hauntingly remained in the memory and needed to be expressed in the form of human relationships, emotions, sufferings as has been expressed in this book. It is nothing but the memory of the good times that have been the inheritance of every Kashmiri living in these cursed lands much before the human greed caused the upheaval which disintegrated the human values for worse. As the blurb of the book declares “Residue is ...

Long smiles of the night
In my reflected self
Remind me of place
Where nothing reconciles (Residue 308).

Nitasha Kaul’s Novel Residue published in March 2014 was selected for the Man Asian Literary Prize, as compared to earlier writings on Kashmir like Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer, Garden of Solitude by Sidrath Gigoo, Our Moon has Blood Clots too by Rahul Pandith The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed all belong to the azure valley of “Simbelmynë flowers.” All these fictional and nonfictional w...