Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special\n Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not\n always for good reasons. And then one day he disappears. His daughter, Zooni,\n a human rights activist has to return home for her missing father. Bizarre\n events unfold in the ensuing night at a safe house where she’s forced to stay\n and where she comes face-to-face with the most disturbing truth of her life,\n and of the lives of her father and half-brother. Through the eyes of the\n daughter are seen the dilemma and the moral crisis of a legendary police\n officer torn between his past and present, duty and desertion, loyalty and\n treachery, and right and wrong. Award-winning author Siddhartha Gigoo’s The\n Lion of Kashmir is not just a story of a father and daughter’s intrepid\n struggles in Kashmir, but also the story of present-day Kashmir itself.