Kashmir's brutal stories get cartoon treatment

Through sombre black and white drawings, graphic novelist Malik Sajad tells the brutal story of his native Kashmir in the 1990s, when an armed insurgency against Indian rule reached its bloody peak.-AFP

Srinagar (India) (AFP) - Through sombre black and white drawings, graphic novelist Malik Sajad tells the brutal story of his native Kashmir in the 1990s, as an armed insurgency against Indian rule reached its bloody peak.

Sajad's debut graphic novel "Munnu" is his account of growing up in the Kashmir Valley, one of the most spectacular but also most heavily militarised places on earth.