In this 1967 interview of Urdu language’s star poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz with Kashmiri journalist Shamim Ahmad Shamim, the poet reminisces on his time spent in Kashmir.
Fear is a ubiquitous element of being and yet it engenders a singular vocabulary for all of us. Khurram is one such portrait of the vocabulary of fear.
In this essay, the author explores various definitions of literature and underlines how we understand the term ‘literature’ can have significant impact on how literature is produced, consumed and evaluated in Kashmir.