Until My Freedom Has Come. Sanjay Kak
© 2013 by Sanjay Kak
First published in 2011 by Penguin Books India.
This edition published in 2013 by Haymarket Books.
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Anthology and introduction © Sanjay Kak 2013. The copyright for individual pieces vests with the respective authors. ‘Kashmir Rapper Uses Rhymes to Protest Indian Rule,’ ‘Kashmir’s Anonymous Graves Summon Darkest Days,’ and ‘The Wounds of Kashmir’s Never-ending War’ © Associated Press 2011; ‘The Islamism Bogey in Kashmir’ © Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd 2011; ‘How I Became a Stone-thrower for a Day’ © HT Media Ltd 2011.
Cover photos:
Bottom: An Indian paramilitary solider stands guard outside a closed market during a shutdown in Srinagar, India, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. A general strike against the killing of a student by paramilitary soldiers earlier that week during a demonstration over frequent power cuts had shut most of Indian-controlled Kashmir. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Top: Srinagar protest, August 18, 2008, by Javed Dar.
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Contents
The Fire Is at My Heart: An Introduction
Summers of Unrest
Summers of Unrest Challenging India
Parvaiz Bukhari
Diary of a Summer
Suvir Kaul
What Are Kashmir’s Stone-pelters Saying to Us?
Sanjay Kak
Kashmir Unrest: A Letter to an Unknown Indian
Basharat Peer
How I Became a Stone-thrower for a Day
Hilal Mir
Curfewed in Kashmir: Voices from the Valley
Aaliya Anjum and Saiba Varma
I See Kashmir from New Delhi
Suvaid Yaseen
Kashmir’s Abu Ghraib?
Shuddhabrata Sengupta
‘The People Are With Us’: An Interview with Masarat Alam Bhat
Dilnaz Boga
Masarat CD Creates Ripples
Greater Kashmir
‘Respected Shobha Rani’
Aijaz Hussain
Captive City
Captive City
Wasim Bhat
‘I Protest’
MC Kash
Kashmir Rapper Uses Rhymes to Protest Indian Rule
Aijaz Hussain
The Islamism Bogey in Kashmir
Najeeb Mubarki
The Kashmir Intifada
Malik Sajad
Kashmir: A Time for Freedom
Angana Chatterji
Kashmir’s Anonymous Graves Summon Darkest Days
Tim Sullivan
The Wounds of Kashmir’s Never-ending War
Ravi Nessman
The False God of Military Suppression
Gautam Navlakha
Languages of a Security State
Nawaz Gul Qanungo
Bub, Bunkers and Beyond
Sameer Bhat
A Victorious Campaign
Arif Ayaz Parrey
A Place of Blood and Memory
Kashmir: A Place of Blood and Memory
Nitasha Kaul
Kashmiri Marginalities: Construction, Nature and Response
Gowhar Fazili
Kashmir: Three Metaphors for the Present
Arif Ayaz Parrey
Making a Part Inalienable: Folding Kashmir into India’s Imagination
Mridu Rai
A Letter to Fellow Kashmiris
Mohamad Junaid
Timeline
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Tsaalun chu vuzmall ti tratay
Tsaalun chu mandanis gatakar
Tsaalun chu parbatas karun attey
Tsaalun chu manz athas hyon naar
Tsaalun chu paan kadun grattay
Tsaalun chu khyon ekvat zahar khar
We must bear the lightning and thunder
We must bear the darkness at noon
We must bear the mountain on our shoulders
We must bear the fire we place on our palms
We must bear our bodies milled to dust
We must bear to swallow the poison load together
—Sheikh