Remnants of Joy, May 5 -- Graveyard of empires is often the name given to Afghanistan bearing witness to its war-torn history. This history is meticulously and more so heart wrenchingly depicted in the pages of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner(2003)" and quite vividly in "A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007)". The literature paints a vivid picture of Afghanistan right from the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, giving way to the US-led proxy war and the birth of the Mujahideen in the 1990s, to the country plunging into a civil war tumultuously transforming the Afghan land into a dystopian world led by the fundamentalist forces of Taliban (1996-2001).

These books though written as a memory by Khaled now can only be believed to be a prophecy, giv...