Basharat Peer

Basharat Peer
Basharat Peer
	Peer in 2017
Born	c. 1977; Seer Hamdan, Jammu and Kashmir
Alma mater	JNV Anantnag; Aligarh Muslim University; University of Delhi; Columbia University;
Occupation(s)	Journalist, author, political commentator
Notable credits	Curfewed Night (2008); Haider (2014); A Question of Order (2017);
Spouse	Ananya Vajpeyi (m. 2013)

Basharat Peer (Kashmiri: بشارت پیٖر, born 1977) is a Kashmiri journalist, script writer, and author.

Peer spent his early youth in the Kashmir Valley before shifting to Aligarh and then, Delhi for higher education. In August 2006, he relocated from India to New York City in the United States, where he is currently based as an opinion-editor at The New York Times.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.