People like Basharat Peer

Basharat Peer (Kashmiri: بشارت پیٖر) (born 1977) is an Indian American 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 had relocated 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 Islamabad Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir. 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.