They make a desolation and call it peace. Agha Shahid Ali.

A kaleidoscope of testimonies from the ordinary Kashmiri gives evidence of a brutal militancy and its disturbing response. Hitherto stifled voices paint a vivid portrait of how freedom is conceded and replaced by fear, governance by institutionalised oppression and a paradise made desolate on the watch of a secular, democratic state : the republic of India.