Kashmir valley, Militant, Kashmir History, violence, Curfewed, Kalashankov

Curfewed Night, apparently the firsthand account of a youth growing up in Kashmir during the peak of the insurgency, has attracted attention of people irrespective of profession and field of engagement. The book is in the form of a memoir of a journalist from Kashmir who leaves the valley first to pursue university education and later for a career. He himself, Kashmir, Militants and paramilitary forces are entities which bind the narrative, which otherwise is a collection of very commonly and ordinarily known events of Kashmiri life. He describes his life and events in and outside Kashmir, some famous incidents of Kashmir under siege in the form of interviews, famous episodes of Kashmir history, and famous heritages sites of Kashmir.