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Winter 2010
Vol III, Issue III


Articles 

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
The Shopian Rape Conundrum

Syed Zafar Mehdi Safvi
Afzal Guru's Execution

Nusrat Ara
Evicting Demons from my Land

Najeeba Syeed Miller
An Important Message for Contemporary Muslims

Sohail Iqbal
Conservation Confusion & Puchin Dumpokhta

Agha Shahid Ali
A Remembrance

Photo Essay
Yawar Nazir Kabli
Gunbattle
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Kashmir Lit welcomes general submissions.

Email your articles, photo essays, reviews, creative works etc at: submissions@kashmirlit.org or editor@kashmirlit.org

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Call for Papers

Kashmir Ink Collective is publishing a collection of original essays titled Growing up Kashmiri slated for Winter 2011 publication (print & online).

 

Contributions are invited from interested writers, in shape of 1500 to 3000 worded essays.

 

The essays can include but not be limited to narratives of personal growing up experiences, issues of identity, conflict and vision for Kashmir.

 

Brief author bio and contact information should be included.

 

Please post your contributions to submissions@kashmirlit.org or editor@kashmirlit.org

 

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Fall 2009
Vol II, Issue II
Seema Kazi
Nyla Ali Khan
 
Javeed Ahmed Mir
Fatima Sultan Syed
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Fall 2008  
Vol I, Issue I
 
 
Shafi Ahmed
 
Naira Yaqoob
 
 
Yawar Nazir Kabli
 

Shaleen Kumar Singh
Diaspora Literature: A Testimony of Realism

 

 

Aarti Tikoo Singh
Kashmir As It Is

 

Afsana Rashid

The issue of special children in Kashmir conflict

 

S Zafar Mehdi Safvi
Paradise on boil

 

David Lepeska
The Rebirth of Kashmir

 

Afsana Rashid
They wait endlessly to be pronounced widows
 

Jehangir Rashid

Female Drug Addiction

 

Akh Shruk

(One Short Poem)

 

"Full of weeds is your field,
Enter with determination and deweed it
Bend you must in blazing heat
To deweed

your field:
He, who sows the seed, reaps the crop !"

 

 

Shiekh ul Alam

Translation:Prithvi Nath Razdan (Mahanoori) 

 
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A Peep out of the Past, painting  & photo courtesy Masood Hussain




Indian Army personnel at a recent encounter (6th January 2010) in Srinagar city, Kashmir.

Photograph, Yawar Nazir Kabli

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 A View of the Sarband Reservoir at Harwan

© Kashmir Lit Fall 2009

 

  

   A Patch of Lotus Garden on Nageen Lake

     © Kashmir Lit Fall 2009

 

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© Rafique Khan

 


© Ami Vitale

 

© Yawar Nazir Kabli