Behind Bars: Systematic Violence and Human Rights in the Plague upon Us
摘要
Emerging from the tumultuous milieu of 1990s Kashmir, Shabir Ahmad Mir’s novel, The Plague Upon Us (2020), inaugurates its narrative with a distorted mathematical formulation of revolution. This is epitomized by the confrontation between enraged masses and khaki-clad forces seeking to quell dissent with bullets. Situated within the backdrop of Kashmir’s bloodshed and strife, Mir’s debut work, acknowledged on the shortlist of the JCB Prize and published by Hachette India, adeptly encapsulates the pervasive suffering and melancholy inherent in life within the Kashmir Valley.