Poetry
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5.4KPoetry: Prima Facie nothing has happened
Detailing the horrendous night of Feb 23-24 1991, when the Indian Army subjugated women of Kunan Poshpora to collective abuse, Ather Zia...
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6.2KPoetry: An ode to the country of red roads
I walk on a road, That is red, Cause the asphalt, Was taken off our hearts. The path to our local cemetery,...
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11.9KThrough the lens of Kashmiri literature: Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry 16 years after his demise
“We shall meet again, in Srinagar, by the gates of the Villa of Peace, our hands blossoming into fists till the soldiers...
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8.0KThe Shaahid and the Shahiid: A tribute by Nawaz Gul Qanungo
Half a decade before the Jawaharlal Nehru University would erupt and subsequently come under fire for hosting a talk about The Country Without...
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6.6K5 times blackout poetry spoke of the pain in Kashmir
blackout poems by muhammad nadeem Blackout poetry falls in the category of ‘found poetry’ in which one focuses on rearranging words to...
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4.1KRemembering September 2014 Floods in Poetry
I) No glitter in the eyes behind pane of the battered window, The consternation of my heart breaks a saucer...
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3.1KPoetry: You were not there
Yes, you were not there, when they snatched my scarf, from my head. You have not seen them, entering my home, in...
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6.6KTwo poems of memory and madness by Omair Bhat
The country that they ask to forget its name, It exists in the thought, That always comes to a mad poet,...
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Poetry: Kaltooncha, the Kashmiri Kingfisher
Hey you! Look at my water tinged wings, Know that I can dive better than most. I live high up in the...
