TY - BOOK AU - Malik Sajad AU - Malik Sajad TI - Munnu : : a boy from Kashmir SN - 9780008165628 U1 - 741.5 SAJ PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - : Fourth Estate KW - Arts KW - Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Comic books, strips, etc KW - Graphic novels -- India N2 - Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and, his favourite, older brother Bilal. It also revolves around Munnu's two favorite things; sugar and drawing. But Munnu's is a childhood experienced against the backdrop of conflict. Bilal's classmates are crossing over into the Pakistan-administered portion of Kashmir to be trained to resist the 'occupation'; Papa and Bilal are regularly taken by the military to identification parades where informers will point out 'terrorists'; Munnu's school is closed; close neighbors are killed and the homes of Kashmiri Hindu families lie abandoned, as once close, mixed communities have ruptured under the pressure of Kashmir's divisions ER -