Issue I
Revisiting Dispossession and Loss in Kashmir
The first annual issue is "Revisiting Dispossession and Loss in Kashmir." Download PDF [5.9 MB]
Loss is emblematic of the violence that the land and bodies of Kashmiris have borne. The works in this issue discuss the inalienable, individual and collective processes of dispossession that the bodies of Kashmiris are subjected to. In this issue, we revisit this subject with a sense of urgency to remember and document what this loss is, and has been, in a bid to preserve the memory of disenfranchisement. These stories of loss and dispossession have been told as witnessed, understood and interpreted by 20 Kashmiri women.
CONTENTS
For Parveena Ahanger, in Solidarity, Misbah Haqani
NARRATIVE ESSAYS
Between Redressal and Survival: Domestic Violence in Kashmir, Arshie Qureshi
‘Holocaust of the East, Not Mentioned in Books’, Ather Zia
Cooking in Kashmir: The Story of How to Make Yakhni in Our Kitchen, Misbah Reshi
Loss, Longing and Survival: Women Family Members of the Disappeared in Kashmir, Natasha Rather
POETRY
Driving without a lasan in Kashmir, Ather Zia
Our Memory is a Weapon, Madeeha Majid
Haqdaar Sund Haq, Maryam Kashmiri
Be Wanith Zaani Kas, Naseem Shafaie
ACADEMIC ESSAYS
Gender, Faith and Politics: Locating Shia Women in Discussions on Kashmir, Ifsha Zehra
Conflict, Space, & Public Architecture: Tracing Transformations of Loss through Bridges in Kashmir, Mariyeh Mushtaq
Pursuing the Right to Truth: Women’s Resistance and the Fight against Impunity, Madeeha Majid
ART AND VISUALS
“Ghar’e Wand’hai Ghar’e Saasa”, Ansab Jehan
Stills from My Memory, Barooja Bazaz
‘Born in a Curfew:’ Childhood in Kashmir, Masrat Zahra & Zara Bakshi
MEMOIRS
Laments from an Occupied Home, Essar Batool
Baksa: Selective Remembrance of Partition, Ravneet Kour
FICTION
F is for Fish. F is for Freedom, Fouziya Tehzeeb
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Cover Art Explainer, Kashmir Pop Art