Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir

'We need more books like Pleasure Gardens for other regions around the world. It is an account that fundamentally magnifies the voices of the Kashmiri people, dignifies their portraits, and does the work of speaking truth to power.'

Criticism 20th September 2024

Ariel Saramandi

Ariel Saramandi is a British-Mauritian writer, who lives – and was brought up – in Mauritius. Her non-fiction has been published in Granta, The White Review, PEN Transmissions, the LA Review of Books and other places. Her translation of Gilbert Ahnee’s Exils was published in The White Review’s Translation Anthology in 2024.