‘I gift you a rugged map carved from cracks between divorced nations’: Five poems from Kashmir
In this curated collection, five poets from Kashmir write about their homeland, variously chronicling the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, the communications blockade, the experience of childhood in militarised zones and the difficulty of bequeathing a brutal history to one’s children. Organising the narrative of their struggle requires acts of imagination: Letters to those who haven’t […]
Arrest of activist Khurram Parvez shows a new hostility towards civil society in Kashmir.
On November 22, 2021, Khurram Parvez, a globally acclaimed Kashmiri human rights defender and civil society activist was arrested by the Indian government. Charged under the much-criticized Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for “terror-funding” and “conspiracy,” Khurram’s internationally acclaimed body of work is being tarnished by allegations of terrorism. His arrest has caused global outrage, and the United Nations and other human rights […]