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.

      ISBN: 978-1-60846-261-2

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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