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Apart from being a Shangri-la, Kashmir has another horrible side of being a conflict zone. This side of Kashmir presents the armed struggle, military operations and cross border terrorism which also attracted writers, journalists and film makers particularly from the rest of India to set their stories on issues like these. Though many of these stories and movies presented Kashmir as a beautiful landscape, but in most cases it has been presented as a place full of horrors and bloodshed. Presenting these issues in a derogatory way has maligned the Kashmiri image in the eyes of people living outside Kashmir. In order to counter these narratives, many writers from valley are stepping forward to narrate the actual reality of Kashmir which has led to a contradiction in the view points. While the writers from rest of India present Kashmir from their own perspective, Kashmiri writers are also trying to speak against any constructed prejudices from a Kashmiri perspective. It is these differences and contradictions which this paper attempts to analyze. This paper attempts to show how these differences led to either representation or misrepresentation of a certain community. This paper also attempts to analyze how it is to be a victim rather than a spectator without the first-hand knowledge of the events. For the purpose this paper attempts to make a comparative study of the two novels titled No Guns at My Son's Funeral by Paro Anand and The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed. Besides that, this paper has also attempted to discuss the role played by National media, and Hindi cinema so far in covering the issue.