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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal‘A Letter from the Valley’ – a novel, deals with the pangs and pains of life mixed with the little joys and happiness.
John was born at the time when the Indian economy was jigging to adjust to the open economies of the world. At the same time, his father is victimized by the intrigues of the church politics. The transition of the economy was a difficult time for him like his generation to readjust to the changed times to make a career.
Sipping the bitterness of the religiously and cast divided society, he tries to find some threads to knit together its wounds torn down by religious riots and the separatism supported by terrorism.
John finally finds a small job of a computer operator in the neighboring state of Jammu & Kashmir, where he shares the pains of a local Kashmiri boy Farukh, who becomes his roommate. Here they find a relation between Christianity and Islam that was once lost inside Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
John is already connected to another Kashmiri man who has a separatist instinct and has now joined a terror group. This terrorist, Ahmed, plans to bomb a bus that by chance is carrying John…
Norman Ezekiel
The writer was born during the ancient times of India in the last year of 70s of the 20th century and has grown through the transition to modern times of Indian economy in the early 90s.
He has lived among the common folks of rural Punjab that gives him the firsthand experience of the characters to make them alive in this work.
He takes the story even across the borders to reveal the cast and religious prejudices found in the folks of multifaith community of the Indian subcontinent and then vividly appreciate an intrinsic connection still found among them.
Being a History teacher, he beautifully makes the story to imbibe the history to make this book quite an informative. He takes his readers from India to Pakistan and then finally he reveals to them the agony of Kashmir.
