Resistance Poetry in Kashmir
Srinagar, Aug. 31 -- Huzaifa Pandit
Neither a ritual of friendship, nor
the etiquette of enmity
Both are worded similarly
in your city.
-Khatir Gaznavi
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric, Adorno is supposed to have said. Yet in the case of Kashmir, where Auschwitz occurs every day, if not in scale but in tenor, poetry continues to be written. Social media stands as testimony that poetry is being written in Kashmir on an unprecedented scale, not only in English but also Urdu and Kashmiri.
This is partly true of the whole world, if not the subcontinent alone, and attributable to the ease and audience social media, especially Facebook, has engendered. However, in case of Kashmir, there is more than meets the eye. For most poe...
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