‘SACH TOH YAHI HAI’ by Author Dr. Asha Naithani Dayama.
The book brings to life the unheard voices of Jammu and Kashmir and unravels the ruthless truth of an untouched aspect of this state.
The stories of ‘Sach Toh Yahi Hai’ are based on True Life Incidents of people from the aforementioned communities and hence, the characters and their plight, feel alive and real.
The first ever stories of true incidences written on victims of Article 35A of the Indian Constitution
(Article 35A of the Indian Constitution was an article that empowered the Jammu and Kashmir state’s legislature to define “permanent residents” of the state and provide special rights and privileges to those permanent residents.)
· Day | Date: Wednesday, 20th November 2019
· Time: 4:00 pm
· Venue: Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Bhavans College, Andheri (West).
Pandit Shiv Kumar Shama ji and Dr. Suryabalaji will be inaugurating the book along with the Author.
The event will also be attended by the renowned celebrities from the Television industry:
· Ustad Taufeeq Qureshi
· Punit J Pathak
· Sriti Jha
· Manasi Parekh
· Yashaswini Dayama
· Jyothi D Tommar
· Karan Sharma
· Sanjay Khanduri
· Manan Shah
· Karan Rathor
· Utkarsh Naithani among others
The stories of ‘Sach Toh Yahi Hai’ are based on True Life Incidents of people from the aforementioned communities and hence, the characters and their plight, feel alive and real.
The author has presented their stories with a lot of sensitivity and the stories have a dimension of reality that touches the readers. The pain, helplessness, despair and frustration of the characters foments the reader.
This book brings to life the unheard voices of Jammu and Kashmir and unravels the ruthless truth of an untouched aspect of this state.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The stories are based on Article 35A- true events. The story of millions of exploited, Indians, who in the last 71 years of independent India, have been deprived of all the rights and were compelled to live like slaves. She makes a humble submission that she is not a historian but, her stories focus on that aspect of the history of Jammu Kashmir, which has not been covered or written about in the literary world. Throughout 71 years of Independent India, the governments of J&K, under the guise of law, have ruled like tyrants and inflicted such atrocities on these communities which will shake people to their core. The stories reveal these blatant capricious governmental practices in the states of J&K over the last 70 years.
This book is a compilation of 8 short stories. All the stories have been written before the month of February 2019. It is a pleasant coincidence that by the time this book was published, Articles 370 and 35A have been abolished by the Indian government. Unfortunately, it will be years before any ground level justice prevails.