Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir

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A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted property of Kashmir, through a boy’s childhood. Papa and Bilal are frequently taken by the armed service to identification parades where informers will explain ‘terrorists’; Lifestyle revolves around his family members: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and, his favourite, old brother Bilal. Closely predicated on Malik Sajad’s personal childhood and encounters, it is a lovely, evocatively drawn graphic novel that queries every part of the Kashmir circumstance – the faults and obligations of every side, the annals of the spot, the part of Britain and the West, the options for future years. close neighbours are killed and the homes of Kashmiri Hindu family members lie abandoned, as once close, blended communities have ruptured beneath the pressure of Kashmir’s divisions. Bilal’s classmates are crossing over in to the Pakistan-administered part of Kashmir to learn to withstand the ‘occupation’;

Seven-year-old Munnu keeps growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Munnu’s college is shut;

But Munnu’s is normally a childhood experienced against the background of conflict.

Munnu can be an incredibly personal insight into everyday existence in Kashmir. In addition, it revolves around Munnu’s two favourite things – sugars and drawing. It opens up the tale of the contested and conflicted property, while also providing a brilliantly close, funny and warm-hearted portrait of a boy’s childhood and coming-of-age group.

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