THE LION OF KASHMIR

Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special
Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not
always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni,
a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre
events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay
and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life,
and of the lives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the
daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police
officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and
treachery, and right and wrong. Award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo’s The
Lion of Kashmir is not just a story of a father and daughter’s intrepid
struggles in Kashmir, but also the story of present-day Kashmir itself.