(I) How do you bear the separation While your home is under siege: By recalling an army of metaphors Or dead clichéd caterpillars of hope? How do you bear separation alone While you oscillate between awful Dregs of despair and the hazy Halloweens of commercial ads? (ii) How do you … Read more →
Ten poems by Anita Bharti
RUKHSANA’S RESIDENCE BY ANITA BHARTI Translator: Nupur Jain RUKHSANA’S RESIDENCE – 1 Thoughts about you can never cease Rukhsana, from the depth of your eyes arises the question with a new lease of life – A silent tear rolling down your sudden shudder from pain by a memory that turns … Read more →
Three Generations of Kashmir’s Azaadi: A Short History of Discontent
Farrukh Faheem How the Right to Self-determination Got Euphemised into Merely Ending Human Rights Violations When did the question of Kashmir’s right to self-determination get euphemised into Kashmiris’ “grievances” against the Indian state, centred merely on ending human rights violations and better economic support? When did the people of Kashmir, who … Read more →