Blending analyses with anecdotes, Kashmir: Rage and Reason is the Valley's new-age writing, whichtraces, in lucid language, the region's tortured history, the many facets of Kashmiri nationalism, andthe betrayals. The author has woven together his anecdotes and people's narratives from groundzero to give us the real picture in all its starkness, minus any journalistic dressing.
About the Author
GOWHAR GEELANI did his Bachelor's in the field of science and his Master's in journalismand mass communication. He started his professional career in journalism in November 2003while working for Eenadu Television (ETV) as a sub-editor and reporter, at Ramoji Film City inHyderabad for a year. He served Germany's public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle as editorfor several years in Bonn, beginning 2006. Currently, he is based in Srinagar as an independentbroadcast journalist, political analyst and television commentator. He is also a South Asia JournalismProgramme Chevening Fellow (2015), Munich Young Leader (2014), and regularly appears as aKashmir expert and political commentator on television channels including the British BroadcastingCorporation (BBC) World, NDTV 24x7, CNN News 18, India Today, Wion, and India AheadNews, among others. He has also written for the BBC, Race & Class, The Telegraph, Dawn, IndiaToday magazine, DailyO, CNN-IBN, Daily News and Analysis, Globe Post, The Defense Post,Economic and Political Weekly, and several other international and Indian regional media outlets.
