Kundan Lal Chowdhury
was born in Srinagar, the geographical , administrative and political heart
of the valley of Kashmir, a few years before India gained its independence
from the British and thus grew up in an era of optimism, constructive planning
and hope. His parental home in Srinagar was in a locality which is 99.9%
Muslim, where his family was one of the few Hindu families. He grew up
amongst Muslim childhood friends from families ranging in circumstances
from poor to the well connected, the politically savvy and the financially
well off. He studied in mixed, secular schools like his siblings. Prejudice
was largely absent and both mother and father were accepted by all and
sundry in the Muslim community as friends and advisors on a wide range
of issues.
Dr.
K. L. Chowdhury
As a poet Kundan
Lal Chowdhury is concerned with the universal human concerns in a world
dominated by big power, big money and big guns. The book must be read in
a universal context of our times embracing the historical mistakes which
are being repeated again as well as new problems unique to these times
. The anguished cry of the oppressed and the exiled is as relevant in Africa
or Europe or North America or the middle East as it is in Kashmir. It speaks
both for the oppressed and the oppressor communities. For there are many
in both who lament the destruction of their universe.
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