HeyJaredMaatam Phoul - A Dispatch from Kashmir
An account of the cats, the hens, and the roosters in my backyard.
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Brooklyn’s Kashmir Drug Store – A Componder in New York (opens the original)
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In Brooklyn, nestled in the warm hospitality of a Rajvi Desai, an absolute stranger to me until the occasion of her hosting me, which she had gleefully agreed to – thanks to an Instagram story posted by a friend of mine, Haya Fatima Iqbal from Pakistan, the co-founder of a start-up ‘Malaaiyat’ that I have co-founded with her – here in this warm hospitality of this friend from India, Rajvi and I walked along the streets of Brooklyn and on an empty stomach; manically rushing towards the promised P
Zeb, The Whistle, and The Automatic Rifle (opens the original)
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Please view in browser/appWhen my friend Basharat decided it ominously appropriate to buy some chicken thighs for the night’s dinner, he stopped the car in Humhama, Srinagar, on the road which ends not too far away at the supremely summit-ous and fortified Sheikh Ul Alam Srinagar International defense airport, the one with the strictly no photography policy, while me, Nuzhat, and their 2.5 year old child Zeb decided to stay in the car. This decision was made for us by Zeb herself, and like good
The Conflict Kiosk (opens the original)
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Kashmir’s Everyday Word for the Occupier (opens the original)
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Kashmir has for long had a great word for the occupier. The word is ‘beghairat’. The word itself might have its origins elsewhere, granted, its purposes many, but the fact that the Kashmiris chose this word, of all words, to define the occupier, is very telling. What a seasoned resistance resorts to calling an occupier is something worth noting, because a repeated reckoning with this supposed monster often reveals its gross, whimpering, clammy underbelly. Once this ‘monster’ finds himself expose
To bet against caring for a baby sparrow (opens the original)
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A baby sparrow had just passed out due to a heatstroke. On impact on the ground which was of concrete, she perhaps either broke a leg or went into deep shock - a state of being which can last hours or even days in birds. On a tuft of grass, or even on a light layer of weeds, perhaps even just on mud itself, the impact would not have traumatised her as much as she is right now, and with some moments in the shade, she would have been ready again for flight. When I noticed her on the footpath, I pi
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