Poetry
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5.1KMother, 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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‘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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Poets 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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‘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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Faiz’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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21.01.1990 – 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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Poem: 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,...
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Postcard from Slovenia: ‘The Romance in Kashmir’
I was born in ex-Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, the capital of present Bosnia and Herzegovina, on February 10, 1953 to Slovenian parents. My...
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A poetic response to ‘electoral politics’ in Kashmir: Tott, by Ather Zia
The poem, Tott (Beast of burden) is a historied poetic response to the ‘electoral politics’ in Kashmir Tott Kursi karnawan kaar...
