Manufacturing Terrorism: Kashmiri Encounters with Media and the Law
Geelani, Syed Bismillah
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Book ID : 31083
ISBN-10 : 81-85002-70-3 / 8185002703
ISBN-13 : 978-81-85002-70-5 / 9788185002705
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2006
Edition :
Language : English
236p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Part I: Delhi Encounters. Part II: Kashmiri Encounters. Part III: Documents.
DESCRIPTION
This book is a rare combination of biography, scholarship and political commitment. It tells together the stories of Kashmiris living in Delhi trying to pursue their studies,business or professions but inevitably getting caught in the fames of distorted images constructed by the media and the law. It exposes the complicity of these pillars of democracy in lowering human rights standards in the name of war against terror. The author weaves his own story about how overnight he lost all his other identities and became the brother of a terrorist when his older brother of a terrorist when his older brother S A R Geelani, was picked up by Delhi Police's special cell and framed in the parliament attack case and sentenced to death. Despite the fact that both the Delhi High Court and Supreme court acquitted Geelani of the charges, he remained imprisoned by the image of the kashmiri as terrorist.
