The Night of Broken Glass
History didn’t greet us with triumphal fanfares: It flung dirty sand into our eyes.’ The Night of Broken Glass novelizes the incidents of violence that took place in Kashmir in 1989, the year the insurgency broke out. The book not only registers the incidents through visceral imagery, but explores the psychological impact of violence through a set of fictive characters. ‘Rosy’ is an internal monologue of a progressive, jeans-wearing ‘upper-caste’ girl who is disillusioned about her family planning to send away the eloquent ‘lower caste’ Jamshid whom she is madly in love with. Although preserving moments of courage and beauty, violence remains a dominant theme with the book touching upon the issues of caste and gender in Kashmir.
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