Basharat Peer (Template:Lang-ks, born 1977) is an Indian-AmericanTemplate:Efn journalist, script writer, and author.[1]
Peer spent his early youth in the Kashmir Valley before shifting to Aligarh and then, Delhi for higher education.[2] In August 2006,[3] he relocated from India to New York City in the United States, where he is currently based as an opinion-editor at The New York Times.[4][5][6]
Early and personal life
Peer was born in Seer Hamdan in the Anantnag district of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir into a Kashmiri Muslim family.[7] He did his early schooling from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Aishmuqam, an educational institution located near the city of Anantnag, and attended Aligarh Muslim University as well as the University of Delhi for higher education in the fields of political science and law, respectively. Peer also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in the United States.[8]
Peer's father is a retired officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service.[9] He married Ananya Vajpeyi—a Delhi-based academician of Hindu–Sikh[10] background—in 2013, following an eight-year-long courtship.[11][12]
Career
Peer started his career as a reporter at Rediff and Tehelka. In his early career he was based in Delhi. He has worked as an Assistant Editor at Foreign Affairs and was a Fellow at Open Society Institute, New York. He was a Roving Editor at The Hindu. He has written extensively on South Asian politics for Granta,[13] Foreign Affairs,[14] The Guardian,[15] FT Magazine,[16] The New Yorker,[17] The National[18] and The Caravan.[19]
He is the author of Curfewed Night, an eyewitness account of the Kashmir conflict, which won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was chosen among the Books of the Year by The Economist and The New Yorker.[20][21] Peer ran the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of The New York Times.[22]
Notable work
Peer was the script writer along with Vishal Bhardwaj for the 2014 Bollywood film Haider, in which he also made a special appearance.[23][24] He is also known for his literary pieces. His open letter to Indians under the title of Letter to an unkonown Indian started a literary debate on kashmir dispute.[25]
Publications
- Curfewed night{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Random House India(2008)
- Modern Mecca. The New Yorker({Template:Date).
See also
Notes
References
- ↑ Nothing as difficult as writing a book: Basharat Peer, Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff. DAWN.COM(2015-02-25). Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ↑ Curfewed Night- Book Review, Nath, Shiven. Modern Diplomacy(2020-09-23). Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ↑ Style Over Substance, Peer, Basharat. Columbia Journalism Review(June 2007). Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ The Wail of Kashmir(30 November 2008).
- ↑ How green was my valley. The Hindu(7 December 2008).
- ↑ Basharat Peer is New York Times staff Editor(22 December 2016).Template:Dead link
- ↑ Curfewed Night | Book review. the Guardian(2010-06-19). Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ↑ 'Curfewed Night' by Basharat Peer, M.A. '07, gets high praise from The New Yorker.
- ↑ Curfewed Night{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Random House India(2 February 2010). ISBN 9788184000900
- ↑ THE INWARD EYE - Only Kabir's name can stand for India's vast poetic traditions, Vajpeyi, Ananya. Telegraph India(27 June 2011). Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ Vogue India – On The Same Page. Vogue India({Template:Date).
- ↑ Basharat Peer: The man who scripted Haider. Business Standard India(2014-11-01). Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ↑ Kashmir's Forever War. Granta.
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- ↑ Victims of December 13. The Guardian(5 July 2003).
- ↑ Divided but not forgotten. Financial Times Magazine.
- ↑ Posts by Basharat Peer. The New Yorker(13 May 2013).
- ↑ Bound for success. The National.
- ↑ The Legacy of The Looming Tower. The Caravan.
- ↑ Witnessing Kashmir's Invisible War. The New York Times(24 February 2010).
- ↑ Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer. The Guardian(5 June 2010).
- ↑ Prominent Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer to take over 'Times' blog India Ink | Capital New York. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
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- ↑ Letter to an Unknown Indian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
External links
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- Video: Basharat Peer discusses his book Curfewed Night at the Asia Society, New York. 12 April 2010 Article about Basharat Peer adapting and co-writing the screenplay of the movie Haider, an adaptation of Hamlet set in mid-1990s Kashmir and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.
- Hindustan Times