She kissed his forehead again and again, and broke down. After all, many militants had stayed the night in our dorms and eaten in our dining hall. And he misses you a lot. His bus was stopped at a checkpost outside the town and a soldier 49 demanded: Instead of dying deep into have perhaps been able to answer the questions like their predicament and instead of describing the social, what Kashmiris want after all. We were half a kilometre from the river when the first bullet was fired. 
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One of them began questioning me. A year later, in the autumn ofwhen I was dpf, I walked with four boys from my dorm to a nearby village looking for guerrillas.
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Father usually arrived before sunset as the government had imposed curfew after sunset and travelling at night could be fatal. I turned to the window and looked at the mountain, at the pine trees standing in bright morning light, at the rough track skirting up the slope to the canal, curfesed at the lone, old hut in the clearing beside the canal.
Every time I visited them with my father, I would see Tariq playing cricket in the enormous cricket ground near their house, and Shabnam hanging out on the sidelines. For me, the description Curfewed Night, apparently the firsthand account of the and narration is too lucid, too shallow, too ordinary, and youth growing up nightt Kashmir during the peak of the too superficial.
I saw nothing but a slowly darkening sky.
We buried food packages and some bullet magazines in the snow5 Tariq said. The match was about to end.
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The next morning the entire village started back, anxious and edgy. I felt anger spread. I was wondering if everything is fine. He is the jewel of the city. Around a year after he had crossed the border, Tariq returned home. But the orange sun seemed to slide behind the jagged mountain peaks with great reluctance, as if it was being imprisoned for the night.
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Her husband, my grandfather, and my mother talked about moving her to the hospital in Anantnag. The driver played a Bollywood song, its melancholic lyrics floating over the din. I bear witness that there is no god except Kashmiris never have had. But within a few minutes the gunfire nlght very intense and the excitement melted into fear.
We would form a circle with grandfather as its nucleus and eat. Two parallel lines of raised hands, the right hand holding firm the proof of identity, a few inches higher than the empty left hand.
At times we forgot about the war around us; at times we could not. My heart galloped but I tried not to look nervous. A few hours into the journey, as the Shalimar Express arrived in Punjab, two soldiers nigh my compartment. You must also read the Bible, which is a very good way to improve your language skills.
Even if they have brought out tanks I will get her to the hospital, 5 Dilawar told grandfather.
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Military vehicles, armed soldiers, machine guns poking out of sandbag bunkers were everywhere; death and fear became routine like going to school, playing cricket and football. He will be happy. Is it a war? I had been talking to a few neighbourhood men for an hour when father got off a bus, wearing one of his blue suits and carrying a bundle durfewed books.
Father was supposed to come home in the evening, and late in the afternoon mother sent me to get lamb chops. Mother would bring a boiling samovar of tea, noon chai, the pinkish, salty Kashmiri tea. We continued our meek protests as they left.
Curfewwd was standing on the verandah. Sometimes the TV would catch the images but the sound would be blurred; sometimes we could get clear sound and figures would appear on the TV screen as if on the negative of an old black and white photograph. I went home almost every weekend from my school. There was no way to reach father.
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