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| birth_place = [[Seer Hamdan | | birth_place = [[Seer Hamdan]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India | ||
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'''Basharat Peer''' (born 1977) is an [[Indian | '''Basharat Peer''' ({{lang-ks|{{resize|{{nq|بشارت پیٖر}}}}}}, born 1977) is an [[Indian Americans|Indian-American]]{{efn|He regards himself as simply Kashmiri, with his [[nationality]] being a "matter of dispute", owing to the [[Kashmir conflict|violent and long-running conflict]] between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] over [[Kashmir]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/08/11/my-nationality-a-matter-of-dispute-basharat-peer/|title='My Nationality a Matter of Dispute': Basharat Peer|last=Sircar|first=Subhadip|date=2010-08-11|website=WSJ|access-date=2017-04-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Peer|first=Basharat|date=2019-03-02|title=Opinion {{!}} The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War (Published 2019)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/kashmir-india-pakistan.html|access-date=2021-02-07|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Shamsie|first=Kamila|date=2010-06-04|title=Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer {{!}} Book review|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/05/curfewed-night-basharat-peer-review|access-date=2021-02-07|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>}} journalist, script writer, and author.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=The Newspaper's Staff |date=2015-02-25 |title=Nothing as difficult as writing a book: Basharat Peer |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1165739 |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}}</ref> | ||
Peer spent his early youth in the [[Kashmir Valley]] before shifting to Aligarh and then, Delhi for higher education.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nath|first=Shiven|date=2020-09-23|title=Curfewed Night- Book Review|url=https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/09/23/curfewed-night-book-review/|access-date=2021-02-07|website=Modern Diplomacy|language=en-US}}</ref> In August 2006,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Peer|first=Basharat|date=June 2007|title=Style Over Substance|url=https://www.cjr.org/feature/style_over_substance_1.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207203640/https://archives.cjr.org/feature/style_over_substance_1.php|archive-date=7 February 2021|access-date=7 February 2021|website=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|language=en}}</ref> he | Peer spent his early youth in the [[Kashmir Valley]] before shifting to [[Aligarh]] and then, [[Delhi]] for higher education.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nath|first=Shiven|date=2020-09-23|title=Curfewed Night- Book Review|url=https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/09/23/curfewed-night-book-review/|access-date=2021-02-07|website=Modern Diplomacy|language=en-US}}</ref> In August 2006,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Peer|first=Basharat|date=June 2007|title=Style Over Substance|url=https://www.cjr.org/feature/style_over_substance_1.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207203640/https://archives.cjr.org/feature/style_over_substance_1.php|archive-date=7 February 2021|access-date=7 February 2021|website=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|language=en}}</ref> he relocated from India to [[New York City]] in the [[United States]], where he is currently based as an opinion-editor at ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/The-Wail-of-Kashmir/391833|title=The Wail of Kashmir|date=30 November 2008|work=[[Indian Express]]|accessdate=14 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/12/07/stories/2008120750150400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228073454/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/12/07/stories/2008120750150400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 February 2009|title=How green was my valley|date=7 December 2008|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=14 May 2010|location=Chennai, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kashmirlife.net/basharat-peer-new-york-times-staff-editor-124323/.html|title=Basharat Peer is New York Times staff Editor|date=22 December 2016|work=[[Kashmir Life]]}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | ||
== Early and personal life == | == Early and personal life == | ||
Peer was born in [[Seer Hamdan]] in the [[Anantnag district]] of | Peer was born in [[Seer Hamdan]] in the [[Anantnag district]] of the erstwhile [[Indian state]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] into a [[Kashmiri Muslim]] family.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-06-19|title=Curfewed Night {{!}} Book review|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/20/curfewed-night-basharat-peer-dalrymple|access-date=2021-02-07|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> He did his early schooling from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Aishmuqam, an educational institution located near the city of [[Anantnag]], and attended [[Aligarh Muslim University]] as well as the [[Delhi University|University of Delhi]] for higher education in the fields of [[political science]] and [[law]], respectively. Peer also attended the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Graduate School of Journalism]] at [[Columbia University]] in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/news/362 |title='Curfewed Night' by Basharat Peer, M.A. '07, gets high praise from The New Yorker |accessdate=2013-06-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210230835/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/news/362 |archivedate=10 December 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref> | ||
Peer's father is a retired officer of the [[Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Peer|first1=Basharat|author2=Basharat Peer|title=Curfewed Night|date=2 February 2010|publisher=Random House India|isbn=9788184000900|page=52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqiqnt4uQ34C&q=basharat+peer+Kashmir+Administrative+Services&pg=PA52|language=English}}</ref> He married [[Ananya Vajpeyi]]—a [[Delhi]]-based academician of [[Hinduism and Sikhism|Hindu–Sikh]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vajpeyi|first=Ananya|date=27 June 2011|title=THE INWARD EYE - Only Kabir's name can stand for India's vast poetic traditions|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-inward-eye-only-kabir-s-name-can-stand-for-india-s-vast-poetic-traditions/cid/386025|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207202518/https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-inward-eye-only-kabir-s-name-can-stand-for-india-s-vast-poetic-traditions/cid/386025|archive-date=7 February 2021|access-date=7 February 2021|website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|Telegraph India]]|quote=I knew of Allahabad because that was the place associated with [[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]], the older Hindi poet who had first helped my father to find his feet in Delhi in the early 1960s, and who, together with his wife [[Teji Bachchan|Teji]], had acted in loco parentis for my Brahmin father at his — at the time rather controversial — wedding to my Sikh mother.}}</ref> background—in 2013, following an eight-year-long [[courtship]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=May 2014|title=Vogue India – On The Same Page|url=http://www.porterfolio.net/uploads/article/file/4070/104_VO_0514.pdf|journal=[[Vogue India]]|volume=2014|pages=104–105|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207205025/http://www.porterfolio.net/uploads/article/file/4070/104_VO_0514.pdf|archive-date=7 February 2021 | Peer's father is a retired officer of the [[Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Peer|first1=Basharat|author2=Basharat Peer|title=Curfewed Night|date=2 February 2010|publisher=Random House India|isbn=9788184000900|page=52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqiqnt4uQ34C&q=basharat+peer+Kashmir+Administrative+Services&pg=PA52|language=English}}</ref> He married [[Ananya Vajpeyi]]—a [[Delhi]]-based academician of [[Hinduism and Sikhism|Hindu–Sikh]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vajpeyi|first=Ananya|date=27 June 2011|title=THE INWARD EYE - Only Kabir's name can stand for India's vast poetic traditions|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-inward-eye-only-kabir-s-name-can-stand-for-india-s-vast-poetic-traditions/cid/386025|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207202518/https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-inward-eye-only-kabir-s-name-can-stand-for-india-s-vast-poetic-traditions/cid/386025|archive-date=7 February 2021|access-date=7 February 2021|website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|Telegraph India]]|quote=I knew of Allahabad because that was the place associated with [[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]], the older Hindi poet who had first helped my father to find his feet in Delhi in the early 1960s, and who, together with his wife [[Teji Bachchan|Teji]], had acted in loco parentis for my Brahmin father at his — at the time rather controversial — wedding to my Sikh mother.}}</ref> background—in 2013, following an eight-year-long [[courtship]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=May 2014|title=Vogue India – On The Same Page|url=http://www.porterfolio.net/uploads/article/file/4070/104_VO_0514.pdf|journal=[[Vogue India]]|volume=2014|pages=104–105|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207205025/http://www.porterfolio.net/uploads/article/file/4070/104_VO_0514.pdf|archive-date=7 February 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Bhatia|first=Ritika|date=2014-11-01|title=Basharat Peer: The man who scripted Haider|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/basharat-peer-the-man-who-scripted-haider-114103000877_1.html|access-date=2021-02-07}}</ref> | ||
== Career == | == Career == | ||
Peer started his career as a reporter at ''[[Rediff.com|Rediff]]'' and ''[[Tehelka]]''. In his early career he was based in [[Delhi]]. He has worked as an Assistant Editor at ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' and was a Fellow at Open Society Institute, New York. He was a Roving Editor at ''[[The Hindu]]''. He has written extensively on South Asian politics for ''[[Granta]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Kashmir's Forever War |url=http://www.granta.com/Archive/112/Kashmirs-Forever-War/1 |publisher=Granta |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131201030951/http://www.granta.com/Archive/112/Kashmirs-Forever-War/1 |archivedate=1 December 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref> ''Foreign Affairs'',<ref>{{cite | Peer started his career as a reporter at ''[[Rediff.com|Rediff]]'' and ''[[Tehelka]]''. In his early career he was based in [[Delhi]]. He has worked as an Assistant Editor at ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' and was a Fellow at Open Society Institute, New York. He was a Roving Editor at ''[[The Hindu]]''. He has written extensively on South Asian politics for ''[[Granta]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Kashmir's Forever War |url=http://www.granta.com/Archive/112/Kashmirs-Forever-War/1 |publisher=Granta |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131201030951/http://www.granta.com/Archive/112/Kashmirs-Forever-War/1 |archivedate=1 December 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref> ''Foreign Affairs'',<ref>{{cite magazine|title=India's Broken Promise|url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137530/basharat-peer/indias-broken-promise|publisher=Foreign Affairs|date=May–June 2012|last1=Peermay/June 2012 |first1=Basharat }}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Basharat|title=Victims of December 13|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jul/05/kashmir.india|accessdate=5 July 2003|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=5 July 2003}}</ref> ''[[FT Magazine]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Divided but not forgotten|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/de2496fa-2eb8-11e2-9b98-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2pzczeovs|publisher=Financial Times Magazine|accessdate=16 November 2012}}</ref> ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref name="The New Yorker">{{cite news|last=Peer|first=Basharat|title=Posts by Basharat Peer|url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/basharat-peer|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=13 May 2013}}</ref> ''[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Bound for success|url=http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/bound-for-success#full|publisher=The National|accessdate=6 June 2009}}</ref> and ''[[The Caravan]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Legacy of The Looming Tower|url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/legacy-looming-tower|publisher=The Caravan|accessdate=1 September 2010}}</ref> | ||
He is the author of ''[[Curfewed Night]]'', an eyewitness account of the [[Kashmir conflict]], which won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was chosen among the Books of the Year by [[The Economist]] and [[The New Yorker]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/witnessing-kashmirs-invisible-war/?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Nida | last=Najar | title=Witnessing Kashmir's Invisible War | date=24 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/05/curfewed-night-basharat-peer-review | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Kamila | last=Shamsie | title=Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer | date=5 June 2010}}</ref> Peer ran the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2013/06/8530821/prominent-kashmiri-journalist-basharat-peer-take-over-times-blog-india |title= | He is the author of ''[[Curfewed Night]]'', an eyewitness account of the [[Kashmir conflict]], which won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was chosen among the Books of the Year by [[The Economist]] and [[The New Yorker]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/witnessing-kashmirs-invisible-war/?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Nida | last=Najar | title=Witnessing Kashmir's Invisible War | date=24 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/05/curfewed-night-basharat-peer-review | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Kamila | last=Shamsie | title=Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer | date=5 June 2010}}</ref> Peer ran the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2013/06/8530821/prominent-kashmiri-journalist-basharat-peer-take-over-times-blog-india |title=Prominent Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer to take over 'Times' blog India Ink | Capital New York |access-date=29 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622044217/http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2013/06/8530821/prominent-kashmiri-journalist-basharat-peer-take-over-times-blog-india |archive-date=22 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
==Notable work== | ==Notable work== | ||
Peer was the script writer along with [[Vishal Bhardwaj]] for the 2014 [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Haider (film)|Haider]]'', in which he also made a special appearance.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/up-close-with-haider-s-scriptwriter-basharat-peer/story-0BtweAO0voKoigemPYUv7J.html|title=Up Close with Haider's scriptwriter, Basharat Peer|date=2014-10-10|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref> | Peer was the script writer along with [[Vishal Bhardwaj]] for the 2014 [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Haider (film)|Haider]]'', in which he also made a special appearance.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/up-close-with-haider-s-scriptwriter-basharat-peer/story-0BtweAO0voKoigemPYUv7J.html|title=Up Close with Haider's scriptwriter, Basharat Peer|date=2014-10-10|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref> | ||
He is also known for his literary pieces. His open letter to Indians under the title of Letter to an unkonown Indian started a literary debate on kashmir dispute.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Peer |first1=Baharat |title=Letter to an Unknown Indian |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/kashmir-unrest-a-letter-to-unknown-indian/articleshow/6278402.cms |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> | |||
==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
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* {{cite book <!--|author=Peer, Basharat |author-mask= --> |title=[[Curfewed Night|Curfewed night]] |location=Noida |publisher=Random House India |year=2008 <!--isbn=8184000340 -->}} | * {{cite book <!--|author=Peer, Basharat |author-mask= --> |title=[[Curfewed Night|Curfewed night]] |location=Noida |publisher=Random House India |year=2008 <!--isbn=8184000340 -->}} | ||
* {{cite journal <!--|author=Peer, Basharat -->|date=April 16, 2012 |title=Modern Mecca |department=A Reporter at Large |journal=The New Yorker |volume=88 |issue=9 |pages=74–81, 84–87|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/16/modern-mecca <!--accessdate=2019-01-09-->}} | * {{cite journal <!--|author=Peer, Basharat -->|date=April 16, 2012 |title=Modern Mecca |department=A Reporter at Large |journal=The New Yorker |volume=88 |issue=9 |pages=74–81, 84–87|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/16/modern-mecca <!--accessdate=2019-01-09-->}} | ||
==See also== | |||
* [[List of Indian writers]] | |||
* [[Mirza Waheed]] | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* {{Twitter | BasharatPeer | Basharat Peer}} | |||
* [http://www.asiasociety.org/video/policy-politics/curfewed-night-complete Video: Basharat Peer discusses his book ''Curfewed Night''] at the Asia Society, New York. 12 April 2010 Article about Basharat Peer adapting and co-writing the screenplay of the movie ''Haider'', an adaptation of ''Hamlet'' set in mid-1990s Kashmir and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. | * [http://www.asiasociety.org/video/policy-politics/curfewed-night-complete Video: Basharat Peer discusses his book ''Curfewed Night''] at the Asia Society, New York. 12 April 2010 Article about Basharat Peer adapting and co-writing the screenplay of the movie ''Haider'', an adaptation of ''Hamlet'' set in mid-1990s Kashmir and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. | ||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140309014345/http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/books/the-dawn-after-curfew/article1-1192577.aspx Hindustan Times] | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140309014345/http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/books/the-dawn-after-curfew/article1-1192577.aspx Hindustan Times] | ||
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Basharat Peer (Kashmiri: بشارت پیٖر, born 1977) is an Indian-American[lower-alpha 1] journalist, script writer, and author.[4]
Peer spent his early youth in the Kashmir Valley before shifting to Aligarh and then, Delhi for higher education.[5] In August 2006,[6] he relocated from India to New York City in the United States, where he is currently based as an opinion-editor at The New York Times.[7][8][9]
Early and personal life
Peer was born in Seer Hamdan in the Anantnag district of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir into a Kashmiri Muslim family.[10] He did his early schooling from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Aishmuqam, an educational institution located near the city of Anantnag, and attended Aligarh Muslim University as well as the University of Delhi for higher education in the fields of political science and law, respectively. Peer also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in the United States.[11]
Peer's father is a retired officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service.[12] He married Ananya Vajpeyi—a Delhi-based academician of Hindu–Sikh[13] background—in 2013, following an eight-year-long courtship.[14][15]
Career
Peer started his career as a reporter at Rediff and Tehelka. In his early career he was based in Delhi. He has worked as an Assistant Editor at Foreign Affairs and was a Fellow at Open Society Institute, New York. He was a Roving Editor at The Hindu. He has written extensively on South Asian politics for Granta,[16] Foreign Affairs,[17] The Guardian,[18] FT Magazine,[19] The New Yorker,[20] The National[21] and The Caravan.[22]
He is the author of Curfewed Night, an eyewitness account of the Kashmir conflict, which won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was chosen among the Books of the Year by The Economist and The New Yorker.[23][24] Peer ran the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of The New York Times.[25]
Notable work
Peer was the script writer along with Vishal Bhardwaj for the 2014 Bollywood film Haider, in which he also made a special appearance.[1][26] He is also known for his literary pieces. His open letter to Indians under the title of Letter to an unkonown Indian started a literary debate on kashmir dispute.[27]
Publications
- Curfewed night. Noida: Random House India. 2008.
- "Modern Mecca". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. 88 (9): 74–81, 84–87. 16 April 2012.
See also
Notes
- ↑ He regards himself as simply Kashmiri, with his nationality being a "matter of dispute", owing to the violent and long-running conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sircar, Subhadip (11 August 2010). "'My Nationality a Matter of Dispute': Basharat Peer". WSJ. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ↑ Peer, Basharat (2 March 2019). "Opinion | The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War (Published 2019)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ Shamsie, Kamila (4 June 2010). "Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer | Book review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (25 February 2015). "Nothing as difficult as writing a book: Basharat Peer". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ↑ Nath, Shiven (23 September 2020). "Curfewed Night- Book Review". Modern Diplomacy. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ Peer, Basharat (June 2007). "Style Over Substance". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ "The Wail of Kashmir". Indian Express. 30 November 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
- ↑ "How green was my valley". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 7 December 2008. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
- ↑ "Basharat Peer is New York Times staff Editor". Kashmir Life. 22 December 2016.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Curfewed Night | Book review". the Guardian. 19 June 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ "'Curfewed Night' by Basharat Peer, M.A. '07, gets high praise from The New Yorker". Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
- ↑ Peer, Basharat; Basharat Peer (2 February 2010). Curfewed Night. Random House India. p. 52. ISBN 9788184000900.
- ↑ Vajpeyi, Ananya (27 June 2011). "THE INWARD EYE - Only Kabir's name can stand for India's vast poetic traditions". Telegraph India. Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
I knew of Allahabad because that was the place associated with Harivansh Rai Bachchan, the older Hindi poet who had first helped my father to find his feet in Delhi in the early 1960s, and who, together with his wife Teji, had acted in loco parentis for my Brahmin father at his — at the time rather controversial — wedding to my Sikh mother.
- ↑ "Vogue India – On The Same Page" (PDF). Vogue India. 2014: 104–105. May 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 February 2021.
- ↑ Bhatia, Ritika (1 November 2014). "Basharat Peer: The man who scripted Haider". Business Standard India. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ "Kashmir's Forever War". Granta. Archived from the original on 1 December 2013.
- ↑ Peermay/June 2012, Basharat (May–June 2012). "India's Broken Promise". Foreign Affairs.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Peer, Basharat (5 July 2003). "Victims of December 13". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 5 July 2003.
- ↑ "Divided but not forgotten". Financial Times Magazine. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
- ↑ Peer, Basharat (13 May 2013). "Posts by Basharat Peer". The New Yorker.
- ↑ "Bound for success". The National. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ↑ "The Legacy of The Looming Tower". The Caravan. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- ↑ Najar, Nida (24 February 2010). "Witnessing Kashmir's Invisible War". The New York Times.
- ↑ Shamsie, Kamila (5 June 2010). "Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer". The Guardian. London.
- ↑ "Prominent Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer to take over 'Times' blog India Ink | Capital New York". Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ↑ "Up Close with Haider's scriptwriter, Basharat Peer". Hindustan Times. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ↑ Peer, Baharat. "Letter to an Unknown Indian". Retrieved 15 October 2022.
External links
- Basharat Peer on Twitter
- Video: Basharat Peer discusses his book Curfewed Night at the Asia Society, New York. 12 April 2010 Article about Basharat Peer adapting and co-writing the screenplay of the movie Haider, an adaptation of Hamlet set in mid-1990s Kashmir and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.
- Hindustan Times
