In our part of the world, recently a historical predicament brought everything to a standstill. It was abrupt and not absolutely expected the way it happened. Its impact was unpleasantly overpowering. It suddenly cut us off from our history. Our collective memory was ransacked. We ushered into an era of stifling silence, an era that brutally took to defamiliarizing the … [Read more...] about A Discourse on Writing in Kashmir
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The Stitched Messages: Love Loss and the Last Wishes
I am a tailor. I specialize in sewing shrouds! In the spring of 2015, two young boys came to my shop. They asked me to sew the green crescent flags. I asked them to wait as I was busy stitching a bride’s gown. Two young boys had been martyred in Tral. Their last wish was to be buried with the Green Crescent flag. One of the two boys made me listen to the last call that they had … [Read more...] about The Stitched Messages: Love Loss and the Last Wishes