wa alaikum assalam and upon you be peace
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Children in Kashmir
‘Kashmiri Children Appeal to India and Pakistan to Maintain Peace Agreement on LoC’, Eurasia Review, 22 September, 2012
Mitchell, Jane. Chalkline, Walker Books, London, 2009
Mortenson, Greg & David Oliver Relin. Three Cups of Tea, Penguin Young Reader’s Group, New York, 2009
http://www.unicef.org/pakistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4TyoEP8Nlo
Child labour
D’Adamo, Francesco. Iqbal, Atheneum Books for Young Readers: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001
Hawke, Rosanne. Mountain Wolf, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2012
http://www.unicef.org.au/About-Us/What-We-Do/Protection.aspx
Forced marriage
Ali, Nujood & Delphine Minoui. I am Nujood, Age 10
and Divorced, Random House, NSW, 2010
Hawke, Rosanne. Marrying Ameera, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2010
Whelan, Gloria. Homeless Bird, HarperCollins, New York, 2000
Line of Control
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/377916.stminsightonconflict.org/conflicts/kashmir
Acknowledgements
A big thank you to Lyn White and Jacinta di Mase for thinking of me to write for the Through My Eyes series. Thanks also to Eva Mills and the wonderful team at Allen & Unwin.
Thank you, Frank Lyman, for your ever-helpful military advice.
In researching for Shahana, I am indebted to Rumer Godden’s ‘A Winter Diary’ published for the first time with a 2002 reprinting of her 1953 novel Kingfishers Catch Fire (London: Pan Macmillan).
I was also inspired by John Isaac’s beautiful photographs in Vale of Kashmir (New York:WW Norton, 2008).
Dr Martin Luther King’s first quote at the beginning comes from Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound: a life of Martin Luther King (New York: Harper & Row, 1982). His second quote is from an address delivered in Alabama, 1957.
The line ‘When you have faced the impossible only the possible remains’, which inspired Nana-ji’s words, is from Sudha Koul, The Tiger Ladies (Boston: Headline, 2002, p. 30).
The song Shahana sings is inspired by Emperor Jahangir’s 1620 poem about Kashmir, ‘The garden nymphs were brilliant’, which can be found online in The Memoirs of Jahangir volume 2, translated by Alexander Rogers and edited by Henry Beveridge, 1909.
The words Ayesha sings are from the song, ‘Mere Haath Mein’ (In My Hand) from the movie Fanaa by Kunal Kohli (Mumbai: Yash Raj Films, 2006).
The story that Shahana tells is based on ‘The Tale of a King’ in the 1923 volume of Hatim’s Tales: Kashmiri Stories and Songs by Sir Aurel Stein (New Delhi: Gyan Books, 1989).
The story of the haunted mosque can be found in Tales of Kashmir by Rev J. Hinton Knowles (London: Trubner, 1889).
The story of the stone princess is inspired by an anecdotal story of the same name from the area of Kotli, Azad Kashmir, and also by the legendary Princess Sharda after whom Mount Sharda in the Neelum Valley was named. There is also a story called ‘Four Princes Turned into Stone’ in Knowles’s Tales of Kashmir.
Tanveer’s stories are his own.
Islamic spelling is according to the Islamic Dictionary (islamic-dictionary.com).
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