Jhelum

A Short Story by Ghulam Mohammad Khan The squeezed heart, the weary body. The weight of unvoiced tales, millennia of silence. All of it flows into the invincible Jhelum. It is a silent witness. A keeper of our pain. Its currents try to comfort. In its rage, it claws at … Read more →

Interview with Leena A. Khan

Stories have expanded my capacity for empathy, deepened my understanding of history, and softened my sense of humanity. Reading changes people, and by extension, it changes the world. I wrote Flames of the Cherry Tree because I wanted to wield this power for Kashmir.

A Short Note of Chillai Kalaan

S Ahmed An indignant little child confronted Chillai Kalaan, the fierce forty-day winter of Kashmir: “Why don’t you snow now the way you did in the past? Where are those long, thick icicles that used to hang from the thatched roofs of houses and cowsheds? My father says that in … Read more →

Autumn Poems 2025

THE AUTUMN SONG Whirling wind plays the flutes, the autumn song gracefully unmutes. Rustling leaves sing melodious songs, garden birds join merrily along. Mesmerizing sunsets turn crimson, the maple trees tune in their violin. Dancing moonlight in the streams that flow, guitars strumming soft and slow. Shrivelling valley’s desperate hum, … Read more →

Autumn Poems 2025

Dear Autumn Dear autumn At last! You come. You approach like an intense passion— who can overcome death by the seasonal charm and melody? The leaves are falling down, making the trees empty and bare, to make their souls visible. How beautiful it looks! Autumn— you are the eye of … Read more →

Autumn Poems

Generate autumn leaves and publish these poems THE AUTUMN SONG Whirling wind plays the flutes The autumn song gracefully unmutes Rustling leaves sing melodious songs Garden birds join merrily along Mesmerizing sunsets turn crimson The maple trees tune in their violin Dancing moonlight in the streams that flow Guitars strumming … Read more →

The Banality of Desolation

Ghulam Mohammad Khan I am Desolation. I am the unauthored text, a narrative in search of a scribe to inscribe my meaning upon the world. I am a chameleonic resonance, assuming myriad shapes and hues. I am the breath on the windowpane of a lonely room, the hollow echo in … Read more →

Maybe

Nikhil Azad Maybe one day we’ll meet in Srinagar— where the Jhelum forgets its habit of ferrying craniums of sleeping children, and Kashmir is no longer a bruise pressed into my father’s throat. where curfewed women don’t cradle the stench of bones mourning their lovers, and children no longer wait … Read more →

Child of Wonder

Ashen Kaid He remembered the boy who used to hum to the stars. That child never asked for applause. He didn’t need a reason to dream or permission to wonder. He simply believed the world could be soft again. Now grown, he carried the weight of unspoken goodbyes and crowded … Read more →

The Girl Who Didn’t Exist

Ghulam Mohammad Khan The streets are tombs. Rubble stretches like the bones of a gutted beast. The wind carries the scent of crushed concrete and something older—buried breaths, unfinished screams. At the airport, the conveyor belt swallowed his words. His anger was a live wire. Stubble shadowed his jaw, rough … Read more →

Why all men should be feminists?

Faizaan Bhat & Saalim Bhat After the 2014 devastating floods ended in Kashmir, women, as the old wives’ tale goes, were almost squarely blamed for it. Bizarre enough to believe, reasons given by society for the unfolding of the doom were women’s choice of clothes suggesting the growing inculcation of … Read more →

Shi’ism in Kashmir

Hakim Sameer Hamdani author of Shi’ism in Kashmir in conversation with Faizaan Bhat A few years back, a friend introduced me to Hakim Sameer Hamdani. Since then, a casual meeting has evolved into a friendship; discussing ideas, and books on philosophy, history, theology, etc. We probably disagree more than agree … Read more →

The Enforced Disappearance of Kashmiri Writing

Kashmiri writing and Kashmiris writing are under attack from India. Many write-ups on Kashmir are reported to be mysteriously disappearing. Kashmiri journalists wake up to their entire oeuvre being deleted from the internet. These reports mostly pertain to the real ground situation in Kashmir. This “vanishing of Kashmir’s newspaper archive” … Read more →

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