Srinagar, Aug. 9 -- In a political landscape often flattened by cliches and selective memory, 'Love, Exile, Redemption: The Saga of Kashmir's Last Pandit Prime Minister and his English Wife' (Rupa Publication) arrives like a gust of Himalayan wind - sharp, unsettling, and bracingly honest. Siddharth Kak and Lila Kak Bhan's biographical tribute to Ramchandra Kak, the last Kashmiri Pandit prime minister of Jammu and Kashmir, is not just a family memoir. It's a political thriller, a love story, and a historical reckoning rolled into one.The book opens with the quiet dignity of Kak's early life and his marriage to Margaret, an Englishwoman whose letters and pleas, especially to Sheikh Abdullah, form some of the most poignant moments in the na...