Before you begin with this compilation of 33 poems, I would like to acknowledge that most of them are iterations echoing, what I'd like to call a sentiment – a sentiment of resilience, endurance, survival, existence, which has been assimilated and reflected into every fibre of my being and hence, my words. Kashmir, my motherland, has given me vignettes incessantly, so profound and overwhelming, that I couldn’t help but write about them. This book in ...