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Basharat Peer was born on 1977-12- in Seer Hamdan, Jammu and Kashmir, is a Kashmiri-American journalist, commentator and author. Discover Basharat Peer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, author, political commentator
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1977-12-
Birthday 1977-12-
Birthplace Seer Hamdan, Jammu and Kashmir
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His wife is Ananya Vajpeyi (m. 2013)

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1977

Basharat Peer (, 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.

2006

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.

Peer was born in Seer Hamdan in the Anantnag district of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir into a Kashmiri Muslim family.

He did his early schooling from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Aishmuqam, an educational institution located near the city of Anantnag, and attended Aligarh Muslim University as well as the University of Delhi for higher education in the fields of political science and law, respectively.

Peer also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in the United States.

Peer's father is a retired officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service.

2013

He married Ananya Vajpeyi—a Delhi-based academician of Hindu–Sikh background—in 2013, following an eight-year-long courtship.

Peer started his career as a reporter at Rediff and Tehelka.

In his early career he was based in Delhi.

He has worked as an Assistant Editor at Foreign Affairs and was a Fellow at Open Society Institute, New York.

He was a Roving Editor at The Hindu.

He has written extensively on South Asian politics for Granta, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, FT Magazine, The New Yorker, The National and The Caravan.

He is the author of Curfewed Night, an eyewitness account of the Kashmir conflict, which won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was chosen among the Books of the Year by The Economist and The New Yorker.

Peer ran the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of The New York Times.

2014

Peer was the script writer along with Vishal Bhardwaj for the 2014 Bollywood film Haider, in which he also made a special appearance.

He is also known for his literary pieces.

His open letter to Indians under the title of Letter to an unknown Indian started a literary debate on kashmir dispute.