Comments from Critics
'Autumn Leaves: Kashmiri
Reminiscences is
the autobiography of Ram Nath Kak. Set against the
changing times of Kashmir .... this book provides a
rare glimpse into a relatively unknown segment of
modern history.... Ram Nath Kak entices the reader
with his candid writing style into a mélange of
personal and public experience as he moves from one
station of life to the next, never failing to
introduce an intriguing array of authentic characters
along the way.... This book will be rewarding to
students of modern history and religion....'
GUY L. BECK
Loyola University
New Orleans
'. . . a
lovely book . . . would be of great interest to
historians of religions....'
WENDY DONIGER
University of Chicago
'I trust this
autobiography will get the wide circulation it so
richly deserves. For it conveys in a way no formal
work of scholarship can convey, both the cultural
quality of Kashmir and the tragedy which has overtaken
it of late. Yet the spirit of the Kashmiri people and
their extraordinary ability to refashion lives of
dignity and creativity for themselves comes across
even more powerfully than the tragedy which has
overtaken this beautiful valley in Shri Kak's account
of his life and times.'
RAVINDER KUMAR
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
New Delhi
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