#Suvir Kaul

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Poem translated by Suvir Kaul, photograph by Javed Dar

Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics

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NPR News: Understanding Kashmir https://ift.tt/2Zcz7iY Understanding Kashmir NPR's Scott Simon talks to Suvir Kaul, a historian and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, about India's move to assert itself in Kashmir. Read more on NPR

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The poems chosen in this collection, a lot of them ghazals, reverberate with the passing away of another era that I associate with Agha Shahid Ali and his poetry. That era did not end long ago, for Shahid died in 2001, but since then a spate of violence, like in the case of Palestine, has unleashed inconsolable wounds into the Kashmiri landscape, psyche and life. For India, Kashmir has been reduced to a territory to defend, if necessary against its people. The shape drawn by the coloniser’s pencil is dearer to the postcolonial nation than the breath, song and hands of the people who inhabit a place they call paradise.

Manash Bhattacharjee reviews Of Gardens and Graves by Suvir Kaul.

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Poem translated by Suvir Kaul, photograph by Javed Dar

Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics

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A ­woman mourns in front of her home, gutted by fire, Frisian Pahalgam, November 2012 / A ­woman confronts paramilitary soldiers during a protest against the killing of a school boy, Inayat Khan, Srinagar, January 2010 / A ­woman walks past a mustard field as paramilitary soldier stands guard, Anantnag, April 2013 / Women scuffle with police during a gun ­battle between militants and government forces, Arwani Kulgam, January 2013

Photographs by Javed Dar, featured in Suvir Kaul's Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics