COMMUNITY
The Craft of Writing in Occupied Kashmir
Huzaifa Pandit
Kashmiri poet Huzaifa Pandit in conversation with Nazish Chunara.
By abolishing Urdu, they are removing its historical significance... By pushing for the extinction of a language, you're pushing the extinction of a history and the sentiments associated with that history. Because in life the present is a function of the past. And so, by altering that past, they're hoping to alter the present altogether beyond the cognition.
RECOMMENDED: Green is the Colour of Memory (Hawakal Publishers, 2018) by Huzaifa Pandit.
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Interview
Kashmiri Poetics
Historicity
Poetic Form
Poetry
Kashmiri Struggle
Kashmir
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Agha Shahid Ali
Mahmoud Darwish
PTSD
Trauma
Mass Protests
Memory
Language Diversity
Urdu
Resistance Poetry
Metaphor
Metaphoricity
Raj Rao
Varavara Rao
Journaling
Occupation
Pune University
Language
Language Politics
Hindutva
Despair
Defiance
HUZAIFA PANDIT is the author of Green is the Colour of Memory which won the first edition of Rhythm Divine Poets Chapbook Contest 2017. He is the winner of several poetry contests like Glass House Poetry Competition and Bound Poetry Contest. Born and raised in Kashmir, his poems alternate between despair, defiance, resistance and compliance as they seek to make sense of a world where his identity is outlawed. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Kashmir on the poetics of resistance with Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish. His poems, translations, interviews, essays and papers have been published in various journals like Indian Literature, PaperCuts, Life and Legends, Jaggery Lit, JLA India, Punch and Noble/Gas Qtrly.
