Trauma and its expression are as old as human civilization is, the ways of purgation of traumatic feelings however may vary across time and space. The move of eclipsing and universalising the trauma is an uncontested claim of Euro-American exclusivity. Nevertheless, the global south like Global North has undergone and is undergoing similar bouts of traumatic uprisings in numerous ways. Like many conflict zones over the globe in general and Asia in particular Kashmir remains the centre or rather the epicentre of tragedies and turbulence from past many decades now. The narratives of trauma, exile and nostalgic dilemma one after the other captivate readers and researchers of the field of trauma studies innumerably. Besides the lush green topography and magical sight-seeing, Kashmir is considered to be a spot of interstate rivalry and a deadly war zone. Militarization of the land and terrorizing its people, persecution and exodus of millions is a tragic testimony that not just water, sometimes blood glides through rivers of Kashmir. The themes of literature from Kashmir have shifted and are shifting from maxims and sufi poetry or ‘vakhs’ to narrativizing pain, traumatic memory writing, nostalgic dilemmas and tragic loss. The present study focuses upon the elements of nostalgia of childhood and traumatic memory during rising insurgency in Kashmir, in the book Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir by Farah Bashir.