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Suvir Kaul is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author, most recently, of Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies.
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Javed Dar is an award-winning photojournalist with the Xinhua News Agency in Srinagar and has covered the conflict in Kashmir for more than a decade.
List of contents
Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 1
Poems
Arjan Dev "Majboor" 14
Ghulam Hassan "Taskeen" 20
Brij Nath "Betaab" 24
Ghulam Nabi Tak "Naazir" 28
Shabir "Azar" 33
Essay 1. Visiting Kashmir, Re-learning Kashmir 39
Poems
"Shahzadah" Rafiq 64
Bashir "Dada" 66
Naji Munawar 70
Rukhsana Jabeen 72
Arshad Mushtaq 74
Ayesha "Mastoor" 78
Maqbool "Sajid" 82
Essay 3. "My Paradise in Burnin' . . . " 87
Poems
Moti Lal "Saqi" 108
Mohiuddin "Massarat" 112
Mir Ghulam Nabi "Shaheen" 116
Jawahir Lal "Saroor" 120
Pyare "Hatash" 122
Ghulam Nabi "Khayal" 124
"Shahzada" Rafiq 126
Essay 3. The Witness of Poetry 129
Poems
Rashid "Kanispuri" 158
Pyare "Hatash" 160
Jawahir Lal "Saroor" 162
Fayaz Talgami 164
Bashir "Zair" 166
Ghulam Hassan "Ghamgeen" 168
Kashi Nath "Baghwan" 172
Essay 4. Indian Empire (and the Case of Kashmir) 177
Poems
Zahid Mukhtar 204
Som Nath Bhat "Veer" 208
Coda. A Time without Soldiers 213
Bibliography 217
Index 225
About the author
Suvir Kaul
Summary
Combining personal reflection, political analysis, and literary criticism with memoir and journalistic observation, Suvir Kaul examines the textures of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990. Of Gardens and Graves also includes contemporary Kashmiri poetry and a photo-essay by Javed Dar.
