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037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books, Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_a954.137 _bFRE/FL
100			_aFreny Manecksha
245			_aFLAMING FOREST, WOUNDED VALLEY : Stories from Baster and Kashmir
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260			_aNew Delhi _bSpeaking Tiger Books _c2022
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500			_aOften insulated from the violence, urban middle class India has little idea of what it means to survive in places deeply impacted by the politics of a nation. This book gathers stories from the highly militarized regions of Bastar and Kashmir, and examines how radically spaces can be altered and become battlefronts. Concepts of home as a safe and inviolate place, courts as gateways to justice and inherent rights to livelihood, movement and human dignity, undergo a profound change. What happened when a siege was laid in Kashmir? Coils of razor wire were unrolled, creating martial units to be manned by security forces, and mobile phones and the internet were cut off. How did communities withstand the months and months of shutdown? What happened when a beautiful and vast meadow where pastoral communities have taken their animals to graze for centuries, was leased out as an artillery firing ground? People lost their limbs, even their lives and watched in horror as a flock of sheep got blown up. Children cowered in classrooms as guns boomed and shells exploded in a firing exercise. How did people reclaim this ground?
650			_aState-sponsored terrorism -- India -- Bastar (District).
650			_aNaxalite movement -- India -- Bastar (District).
650			_aIndia Jammu and Kashmir
650			_aInsurgency -- India -- Bastar (District).
650			_aPolitical atrocities -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir.
650			_aJammu and Kashmir (India) -- Politics and government.
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