The Stranger Beside Me: Short Stories from Kashmir, , Neerja Mattoo, , Neerja Mattoo, Gulshan Books, 9788183390170

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The Stranger Beside Me: Short Stories from Kashmir

Neerja Mattoo (Editor) Neerja Mattoo (Translator)

Synopsis The first collection of contemporary Kashmiri short stories translated into English, The Stranger Beside Me, was widely reviewed and appreciated in its first edition. Here are the voices of major Kashmiri writers like Ali Mohammad Lone, Akhtar Mohi-ud-din, Amin Kamil, Abdul Ghani Beg Athar, Avtar Krishna Rehbar, Bansi Nirdhosh, Ghulam Rasool Santosh, Harikrishna Kaul, Hriday Kaul harati, Anees Hamadani, Rattan Lal Shant, Nazir Jahagir and Nayeema Ahmad. Their deeply sensitive portrayal of characters caught up in the vortex of circumstances throws light on conflicts and dynamics that exists in most human societies, but given the present situation in Kashmir, these stories acquire a particular poignancy and would help in understanding the predicament of people living in a de-sensitised, hostile world. The subjects range from personal traumas to a deeper social malaise, highlighting individual tragedies as well as a dysfunctional social milieu created by political and other forces over which common people have no control. Though set in Kashmir, they are not located in a particular time or place, as the concerns they raise are of universal interest. In these stories, dealing with characters from different levels of existence and awareness, a beautiful mosaic of life is created, where almost all its facets find place. The translation into English introduces this genre of Kashmiri literature to a deservedly wider readership.

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About the authors

Neerja Mattoo

Neerja Mattoo taught English language and literature in the Government College for Women, Maulana Azad Road, Srinagar and retired as Principal. She has written several books and papers on Kashmir and its literature and culture. She is well-known now as a translator from Kashmiri into English. apart from other publications, her book of translation of Kashmiri short stories," Contemporary Kashmiri Short Stories" was published by the Sahitya Akademi in 1998, and it has gone into two printings. She has participated in National and International Seminars, presenting papers on aspects of Kashmiri and English Literature. She was awarded a British Council Fellowship to the Unviersity of Oxford in 1984. She was also given a Senior Fellowship to the University of Oxford in 1984. She was also given a Senior Fellowships in Literature by the Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development, in 1997, to work on four Kashmir women poets, Lalded, Habba Khotun, Roh Bhawani and Arnimal, the subject of her forthcoming book. Neerja Mattoo is based in Srinagar.