Alpana Kishore’s work focuses on the competing ideas of India and Pakistan in the subcontinent and the effect of their rival identities on conflict in the region. As a journalist, she reported extensively on Kashmir in the 1990s before switching to research on Partition, the Two Nation ideology and Kashmir. She was awarded a WISCOMP fellowship and published a monograph on Kashmiri identity shifts in 2009.
I Love Lucy (working title) by Alpana Kishore
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With a historic flow that connects the dots from centuries ago to the present, I Love Lucy chronicles Kashmir’s descent from its own rooted, mixed tradition into a story scripted by other people. The Kashmiri’s own ambiguous identity is forced to confront some cherished illusions of its past, the albatross of the Two Nation theory and the rival nationalities of India and Pakistan as he struggles to face up to the wounding beliefs of an alien, fundamentalist Islam. I Love Lucy is also the low key, unreported story of the massive fight back and return of the state in Kashmir that provided the key resistance to jehadi ideas by presenting an alternative narrative to challenge them. From classrooms to officers’ messes and militant hideouts, it details the epic battle of ideas behind the conflict.
