Until My Freedom Has Come

Contents

The Fire Is at My Heart: An Introduction ix

Summers of Unrest

Summers of Unrest Challenging India 3

Parvaiz Bukhari

Diary of a Summer 17
Suvir Kaul

What Are Kashmir’s Stone-pelters Saying to Us? 31
Sanjay Kak

Kashmir Unrest: A Letter to an Unknown Indian 43
Basharat Peer

How I Became a Stone-thrower for a Day 47
Hilal Mir

Curfewed in Kashmir: Voices from the Valley 50
Aaliya Anjum and Saiba Varma

I See Kashmir from New Delhi 64

Suvaid Yaseen

Kashmir’s Abu Ghraib? 71
Shuddhabrata Sengupta


The People Are With Us’: An Interview with 86
Masarat Alam Bhat
Dilnaz Boga

Masarat CD Creates Ripples 92
Greater Kashmir

Respected Shobha Rani 94
Aijaz Hussain

Captive City

Captive City 97
Wasim Bhat

I Protest 110
MC Kash

Kashmir Rapper Uses Rhymes to Protest Indian Rule 113
Aijaz Hussain

The Islamism Bogey in Kashmir 116
"Najeeb Mubarki"

"The Kashmir Intifada 120"
"Malik Sajad"

Kashmir: A Time for Freedom 132
Angana Chatterji

Kashmir’s Anonymous Graves Summon Darkest Days 148
Tim Sullivan

The Wounds of Kashmir’s Never-ending War 153
Ravi Nessman

The False God of Military Suppression 158
Gautam Navlakha

Languages of a Security State 169
Nawaz Gul Qanungo

Bub, Bunkers and Beyond 176
Sameer Bhat

A Victorious Campaign 179
Arif Ayaz Parrey

A Place of Blood and Memory

Kashmir: A Place of Blood and Memory 189
Nitasha Kaul

Kashmiri Marginalities: Construction, Nature 213
and Response
Gowhar Fazili

Kashmir: Three Metaphors for the Present 229
Arif Ayaz Parrey

Making a Part Inalienable: Folding Kashmir into 250
India’s Imagination
Mridu Rai

A Letter to Fellow Kashmiris 279
Mohamad Junaid

Timeline 289

Notes on Contributors 297

Acknowledgements 302