Book review : No guns on my son's funeral by paro anand

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Book review : No guns on my son's funeral by paro anand

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The book enlightens the miseries of Kashmir, India. While most of the country gets disturbed on hearing the sound of just one bullet, Kashmiri people cannot differentiate the sound of gunshots from that of construction. The fight between the government, the Indian millitants, the Pakistani inhabitants and the terrorists often result in the disappearance and killing of innocent men. In the midst of all this, the priority of a mother is always to protect her child from getting killed or even from becoming one of the killers.
Aftab, a young boy, is cheerful and full of life in the morning. But the night hides a different story. In the night, he sneaks out of his house to get trained by the man he idealizes, Akram - so brave, so powerful, so.. perfect. But not all we see is always true. When things start going all wrong, all start falling apart - all but not Aftab's loyalty towards Akram. But just like love, extreme loyalty aso makes you blind to the right and the wrong. And then, Aftab's elder sister, with whom he never talked about his problems because she was a girl and could not understand the importance of his training (to kill his own people, which is unknown to him) has a little surprise for him. However, in the end, Aftab and Akram both die and the most affected of all is his sister - who does not want her son to walk his father's path, and wants no guns on her son's funeral.
The language of the book is extremely simple and relatable. The book while telling the story, also potrays the problems of each and every person living in Kashmir - where every second person's death is a murder!
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