Gowhar Geelani did his Bachelor?s in the field of science and his Master?s in journalism and mass communication. He started his professional career in journalism in November 2003 while working for Eenadu Television (ETV) as a sub-editor and reporter, at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad for a year. He served Germany's public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle as editor for several years in Bonn, beginning 2006. Currently, he is based in Srinagar as an independent broadcast journalist, political analyst and television commentator. He is also a South Asia Journalism Programme Chevening Fellow (2015), Munich Young Leader (2014) and regularly appears as a Kashmir expert and political commentator on television channels including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World, NDTV 24x7, CNN News 18, India Today, Wion and India Ahead News, among others. He has also written for the BBC, Race and Class, the Telegraph, Dawn, India Today magazine, DailyO, CNN-IBN, Daily News and Analysis, Globe Post, the Defense Post, Economic and Political Weekly and several other international and Indian regional media outlets.
Blending analyses with anecdotes, Kashmir: Rage and Reason is the Valley?s new-age writing, which traces, in lucid language, the region?s tortured history, the many facets of Kashmiri nationalism, and the betrayals. The author has woven together his anecdotes and people?s narratives from ground zero to give us the real picture in all its starkness, minus any journalistic dressing.
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