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Mahum Shabir
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'Free yourself from this fire': In a faraway land, trying to make sense of Kashmir's everyday trauma
'I see home in the clouded puddle, where tan leaves sit like the last ones on the autumnal chinar.'
Mahum Shabir
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'Each Day...Be Happy...Be Free!': Notes on Kashmir from a mental health facility
The doctor asks if I have witnessed violence. I want to tell him that I have witnessed enough peace to question the distinction in the meaning of these words.
Mahum Shabir
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Diary of a Kashmir curfew: 'Our eyes are crucial to seeing ourselves, to envisioning our future'
Trapped behind the closed doors of a long curfew, a Srinagar resident reflects on the meaning of 'azadi'.
Mahum Shabir
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