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This is a beautifully written book, haunting not just for the stories it tells but the way it tells them: In clear, spare prose that is both aching and brutal. Suchitra Vijayan has travelled to several parts of India’s land borders with China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, chronicled the stories of the victims of India’s quest to force the country into a nation, and has reported them in all their complexity.
She calls her accounts a “museum of forgotten facts” (presumably a revisiting of novelist Anstey Harris’s A Museum of Forgotten Memories) about people living in Kashmir (not Jammu or
