When Kashmir's separatist uprising erupted in 1989, Basharat Peer was a teenager. Numerous young men crossed the Line of Control in the years that followed, drawn by the glamour of the militant and fueled by emotions of injustice, in order to train at Pakistani army camps. To keep Peer out of trouble, he was transferred to a residential school in Aligarh. He completed college and started working as a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir, which was angrier, more violent, and more dismal, was always nearby. The young journalist quit his work in 2003 and went back to his native country to look for the people and the tales that had been haunting him. He paints a terrifying portrayal of Kashmir and its inhabitants in Curfewed Night. These tales describe a young man's entry into a