Role Journalist | Religion Islam Books Curfewed Night Name Basharat Peer Movies Haider, Rangoon | |
Notable credit(s) Reporter at RediffAssistant Editor of Foreign AffairsCurrently Edior of India InkAuthor of Curfewed Night Nominations Star Guild Award for Best Screenplay Similar People Vishal Bhardwaj, Kay Kay Menon, Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Siddharth Roy Kapur Profiles | ||
Basharat peer writer
Basharat Peer, (born 1977) is a Kashmiri journalist, script writer, author, political commentator, and separatist, hailing from Kashmir and currently based in New York City. Peer is a fellow of the Open Society Institute in New York, a George Soros initiative. He maintains that both India and Pakistan are occupying forces in Kashmir and often calls the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir as Indian occupied Kashmir.
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Why Should Americans Know About Kashmir?
Early life
Peer was born in Seer, Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. He attended school in the valley of Kashmir and continued his education after matriculation in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh away from his strife-ridden birthplace. He studied Political Science at Aligarh Muslim University, Law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, and Journalism at Columbia University. Basharat Peer's father is a retired officer of the Kashmir Administrative Services.
Basharat Peer is married to Ananya Vajpeyi, an academician.
Career
He started his career as a reporter at Rediff and Tehelka. During the initial days of his 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 has written extensively on South Asian politics for Granta, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, FT Magazine, The New Yorker, The National and The Caravan.
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. Peer currently runs the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of The New York Times.
Notable work
Peer was also the script writer along with Vishal Bhardwaj for the Bollywood film Haider (2014). He also had a special appearance in the film.