Sunday, September 8, 2013
The present book is the manifestation of inundating currents
of ferocious magnitude ebbing in my own psyche. I have not chronicled the
history of atrocities meted out to Pandits, neither did I enumerate the
gruesome killings of the people of my community at the hands of terrorists.
My tales allude to circumstances of distinct nature, some
strange, others intriguing. These stories are an attempt to depict how
terrorism affected and influenced all of us, one or the other way
The last two stories were written for my own children,
almost bragging about with my siblings, which they have been deprived of.
My stories depict a celebration of life- a continuation of
like. We are the children of legendary eleven families who tenaciously refused
to accept anything, other than battagi (being a Kashmiri Pandit). I have an
uncanny belief: the tyranny of bigots will abate; the contempt and conceit will
end sometime, somewhere. The bruised and pulped up battagi will come out of the
debris of ruined mansions, peep out of the heaped up rubble and stand erect
again. Hence, “We were and we will be.”
Parineeta Khar nee Zutshi was brought up in an extended
family where joys and sorrows, even the illness and career of a child was a
shared affair. Although she is a science graduate, the penchant for English
literature stood in her stead. She came out with honors in English literature.
She further accomplished the same subject at the Kashmir University, Srinagar
in 1976.
Her restless existence had no time to grow as she got
married during her university days. Her husband’s career tossed her on to the
far off lanes in Paris.
With the peal rush of motherhood abating the demand for her
other roles getting fulfilled- she had time to reminisce. The stored up
memories gushed out in a deluge. She started writing short stories for local
newspaper. Her first book on The Shores of the Vitasta was published by the Writer’s Workshop Calcutta
in 1994.
Parineeta lives with her family in Hyderabad for last
twenty- five years. As a part time
teacher, she teaches English Literature at high school level.
Book: We Were and We Will be
Author: Parineeta Khar
ISBN: 81-85217-17-3
Language: English
Author: Parineeta Khar
ISBN: 81-85217-17-3
Language: English
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