The second part of the book looks a bit jumpy. Is it because of the emotional toll the research took?
The idea was to have a fractured narrative.
The narrative apart...
It was difficult. I went through periods of depression. I couldn't write for months together. I was completely depressed. I did nothing. It took four years to complete the book.
Part I of the interview: 'I am a Kashmiri and my politics are different'
I don't come from Paris, where you can sit and write sensuous prose. I come from the messiest of broken societies. That is how I would write. I have seen really broken people and broken places. You can't have it written in any other way and the mind doesn't forget where you come from.
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Image: A Kashmiri family peers out of their window in Srinagar. Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images
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