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...