Kashmiri-American journalist, commentator and author
Basharat Peer
Peer in 2017
Born
c. 1977 Alma mater Occupation(s) Journalist, author, political commentator Notable credits Spouse
Basharat Peer (
Kashmiri : بشارت پیٖر , born 1977) is a
Kashmiri
[1]
[2]
[3] journalist, script writer, and author.
[4]
Peer spent his early youth in the
Kashmir Valley before shifting to
Aligarh and then,
Delhi for higher education.
[5] In August 2006,
[6] 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 .
[7]
[8]
[9]
Biography
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.
[10] 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 .
[11]
Peer's father is a retired officer of the
Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service .
[12] He married
Ananya Vajpeyi —a
Delhi -based academician of
Hindu–Sikh
[13] background—in 2013, following an eight-year-long
courtship .
[14]
[15]
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 ,
[16] Foreign Affairs ,
[17]
The Guardian ,
[18]
FT Magazine ,
[19]
The New Yorker ,
[20]
The National
[21] and
The Caravan .
[22]
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 .
[23]
[24] Peer ran the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of
The New York Times .
[25]
Peer was the script writer along with
Vishal Bhardwaj for the 2014
Bollywood film
Haider , in which he also made a special appearance.
[1]
[26]
He is also known for his literary pieces. His open letter to Indians under the title of Letter to an unknown Indian started a literary debate on kashmir dispute.
[27]
See also
References
^
a
b Sircar, Subhadip (11 August 2010).
" 'My Nationality a Matter of Dispute': Basharat Peer" . WSJ .
Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017 .
^ Peer, Basharat (2 March 2019).
"Opinion | The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War (Published 2019)" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 .
Archived from the original on 3 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021 .
^ Shamsie, Kamila (4 June 2010).
"Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer | Book review" . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 .
Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2021 .
^ Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (25 February 2015).
"Nothing as difficult as writing a book: Basharat Peer" . DAWN.COM .
Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2022 .
^ Nath, Shiven (23 September 2020).
"Curfewed Night- Book Review" . Modern Diplomacy .
Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021 .
^ Peer, Basharat (June 2007).
"Style Over Substance" .
Columbia Journalism Review .
Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021 .
^
"The Wail of Kashmir" .
Indian Express . 30 November 2008.
Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2010 .
^
"How green was my valley" .
The Hindu . Chennai, India. 7 December 2008. Archived from
the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2010 .
^
"Basharat Peer is New York Times staff Editor" .
Kashmir Life . 22 December 2016. [
permanent dead link ]
^
"Curfewed Night | Book review" . the Guardian . 19 June 2010.
Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021 .
^
" 'Curfewed Night' by Basharat Peer, M.A. '07, gets high praise from The New Yorker" . Archived from
the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-29 .
^ Peer, Basharat; Basharat Peer (2 February 2010).
Curfewed Night . Random House India. p. 52.
ISBN
9788184000900 .
Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 8 November 2020 .
^ Vajpeyi, Ananya (27 June 2011).
"THE INWARD EYE - Only Kabir's name can stand for India's vast poetic traditions" .
Telegraph India .
Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021 . I knew of Allahabad because that was the place associated with
Harivansh Rai Bachchan , the older Hindi poet who had first helped my father to find his feet in Delhi in the early 1960s, and who, together with his wife
Teji , had acted in loco parentis for my Brahmin father at his — at the time rather controversial — wedding to my Sikh mother.
^
"Vogue India – On The Same Page" (PDF) .
Vogue India . 2014 : 104–105. May 2014. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 7 February 2021.
^ Bhatia, Ritika (1 November 2014).
"Basharat Peer: The man who scripted Haider" . Business Standard India .
Archived from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021 .
^
"Kashmir's Forever War" . Granta. Archived from
the original on 1 December 2013.
^ Peermay/June 2012, Basharat (May–June 2012).
"India's Broken Promise" . Foreign Affairs.
Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014 . CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link )
^ Peer, Basharat (5 July 2003).
"Victims of December 13" . The Guardian . London.
Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2003 .
^
"Divided but not forgotten" . Financial Times Magazine.
Archived from the original on 19 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012 .
^ Peer, Basharat (13 May 2013).
"Posts by Basharat Peer" . The New Yorker .
Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
^
"Bound for success" . The National.
Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2009 .
^
"The Legacy of The Looming Tower" . The Caravan.
Archived from the original on 25 March 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2010 .
^ Najar, Nida (24 February 2010).
"Witnessing Kashmir's Invisible War" . The New York Times .
Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013 .
^ Shamsie, Kamila (5 June 2010).
"Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer" . The Guardian . London.
Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016 .
^
"Prominent Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer to take over 'Times' blog India Ink | Capital New York" . Archived from
the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013 .
^
"Up Close with Haider's scriptwriter, Basharat Peer" . Hindustan Times . 10 October 2014.
Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019 .
^ Peer, Baharat.
"Letter to an Unknown Indian" .
Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022 .
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