Writings and writers on Kashmir (There are no spaces between words)

Across

6.    Name the Booker Prize winner of the novel, The God of Small Things, who, in 2008, expressed her support for the independence of Kashmir from India after massive demonstrations in favour of independence took place in Srinagar.

Down

1.    Which Kashmiri-American poet wrote the poem, “The Country Without a Post Office”, which is also the title of the poetry collection.

2.    Name the latest novel by Rosie Thomas that recreates the stunning landscapes of stark Welsh countryside, and the lush valleys of Kashmir.

3.    Identify Mirza Waheed’s 2011 novel in which a young boy who grows up in “the forgotten last village before the border” is forced by the Indian army to go into the valley to count corpses.

4.    Who is the author of Curfewed Night, a non-fiction  account of life in Kashmir.

5.    Death in Kashmir, published in 1953, was written by which famous author who also wrote The Far Pavilions?

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