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The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir
Author(s): Sudha Koul (Author)
- Publisher: Headline Review
- Publication Date: 15 July 2002
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0755311167
- ISBN-13: 9780755311163
Book Description
This is the tale of the author’s life growing up in a beautiful, remote valley in Kashmir. It is a memoir of the exotic food, ancient folklore, bawdy wedding traditions, gossamer-soft pashminas and the rhythms and colours of the valley itself that made up the author’s childhood, and the traditional ways that are gradually being lost to younger generations. Set against this is the wider story of Kashmir’s painful history, as it is torn apart by fighting between Muslims and Hindus, with repercussions that are being felt across the modern world.
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About the Author
Sudha Koul was born in Kashmir the year that India was partitioned. Hers was one of the few Hindu families living in the predominantly Muslim area, though as a child the two cultures lived harmoniously with their neighbours. Sudha was educated in an Irish nuns’ school in the valley and eventually became the first Kashmiri woman in the Indian Administrative Service, working as a roving magistrate in remote Indian villages. She returned to Kashmir only to witness it gradually ripping itself apart through religious bigotry and political incompetence. Married with two daughters, she now lives in New York.
