17-year-old novelist creates history in strife-torn Kashmir
(WorldNews India)

People mocked me for trying to write a novel. Fiction is a big `no´ here. People think autobiographies and biographies are a kind of novel, says Rafaat Gilani When Class 12 student Rafaat Gilani decided to write a novel, little did he realise that he would be mocked and lampooned by people for trying his hand at the English literature. Eight months on, the 17-year-old has proved his critics wrong by becoming one of the...