Mirza Waheed's new novel The Collaborator was brought to my attention by an Op-ed piece by the author in the NYT.
In the piece Waheed expresses outrage at something that would outrage anybody that is passionate about universal justice and human rights--the discovery of mass graves in India-occupied Kashmir. A majority of the carcasses in the graves are those of innocent young Kashmiri males, who are apparently butchered in the name of suppression of insurgencies.
Waheed has a point when he says that were these mass graves to be found in the backyard of a Middle-Eastern or African dictator, there would be an outcry in the democratic West.
India, however, is not taken to task for such state atrocities because it is the world's "largest" democracy. What a sordid paradox.
The Collaborator is about the lost boys of Kashmir. A review of the novel can be found here.
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