Literature

Shaalpoph stands for Literature because it’s the act of sharing warmth with a Kanger and telling a story. In Shaalpoph there is always an older person telling a story to a younger person while sharing the warmth of a single Kanger. In Shaalpoph section we publish fiction; mostly short stories, memoirs and poetry by Kashmiri writers. We will also publish translations of Kashmiri literature into English.

Snow

Snow stories from Kashmir

Conflict cruelly touches the lives of people who live amidst it. It’s not the dead alone that are the victims. The snow stories in this collection by Shabir Ahmad are joined together by the mutual thread of conflict and war in Kashmir. The beautiful imagery in these stories paints a sketch of profound anguish and hollowness that conflict induces in the lives of normal individuals. 

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That Night in Kunan Poshpora

This excerpt from the book unearths the buried and lesser-known facts of the case, relying on the case diary submitted by J&K Police before Judicial Magistrate Kupwara, SHRC statements and decision, statements given by the survivors of mass rape and survivors of torture to a research team from Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) and Support Group for Justice for Kunan Poshpora (SGKP) in August 2013, and the authors personal interactions with the victims.

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