In the aftermath of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, a Florida-based Kashmiri poet questions the current violence and disquiet in the Valley and beyond.
Fiction & Verse
On Taming Self-Doubt and Dissonance
It arrives softly, driving anxiety up your torso, hiking up your spine and into your head.
Slaying the Snark: What Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Poem Tell Us About Reality
We talk about ‘common sense’ or dismiss things as ‘nonsense’, but we rarely think about what sense itself is until it goes missing.
An Indian Woman’s Story, Or a Tribute to Hannah Gadsby
As Hannah Gadsby says, "when you destroy a woman, you destroy her story."
My Ceiling is Not Your Son’s Playground
A poem about the different expectations we keep for girls and boys in the same family.
What If I Never Get Married?
In this poem, a man imagines the life he could lead if he never marries.
Watch: The Revolution Is Here. And It Is Not State Sponsored.
An uncomfortable, rousing piece of spoken word poetry for our fraught political moment.