Omar Abdullah at the launch of Vikram Chandra's book 'The Srinagar Conspiracy'

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Omar Abdullah at the launch of Vikram Chandra's book 'The Srinagar Conspiracy'. The book was launch at the hands of Omar Abdullah and reads an excerpt from the book at the launch. Highly charged and brilliantly plotted, The Srinagar Conspiracy is the first thriller to be set against the backdrop of the insurgency in Kashmir. Expertly blending fact with fiction, the book describes the rise of militancy in Kashmir over the past decade and a half and tells the human story of those whose lives were shaped by events beyond their control and whose actions could now decide the fate of the subcontinent. Vikram Chandra's first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize. His collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bo