Poetry
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794Dispatches from Gaza: “They watch us and then go to sleep”
Mohammed Muhaisen writes from Gaza, where he’s surviving alongside his family with nowhere to go. I never imagined we would sink this...
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1.9KIn the mirror of power, no one is just a friend
I write without allegiance. Not for balance. Not for argument. Only to trace the noise that travels behind soft words. A sentence...
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6.9KMother, father, and teacher—A Kashmiri child’s ode to life
Poetry is my hobby. I love poetry because it helps me to share my feelings, my thoughts and opinions regarding things I...
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4.6K‘Social Media has eliminated gap between literary mafia and public’: In conversation with Rumuz-E-Bekhudi
Reading something unusual, at times, may seem unreal—we think how did they let this pass the radar—because we are all so accustomed to...
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7.9KPoets of Kashmir: Inspiration and the Artistic Process
Poetry that has emerged from Kashmir spans across mystical baeth, love songs, travel narratives, philosophical studies and dramas written in verse. Since...
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31.2K‘Rinde poshmaal gindaney drayi lolo’: Romance, longing and Rasul Mir
The land of saints and Sufis, Kashmir, or how we Kashmiris dub it, ‘Peer Waer’, Adobe of Saints, has not only impressed...
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15.1KFaiz’s Love: Allys and Kashmir
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was one of the greatest poets of Urdu language. He had a rare distinction of being an equally renowned...
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4.5K21.01.1990 – A Poem by Amjad Majid
The following poem was written 25 years after the Gawkadal Massacre, on the same day, in an attempt to remember and never...
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5.5KPoem: I’ve been thinking of that summer…
I’ve been thinking of that summer, When freedom’s terrible thirst, spread, Across the territory of grief, covering, The vast landscape of pain,...
