ISSUE 6 THEME: The Banality of Disempowerment and Silence
GUEST EDITOR: HUZAIFA PANDIT
READING PERIOD 5TH OCTOBER – 5TH DECEMBER
For this issue Huzaifa would like to focus on the theme of identities and how they are negotiated and contested in times as these. He is interested in how identities are articulated through the grit of everyday routines and rituals, especially in zones and times which are extraordinary in themselves through violence, subversion, polarisation and contestation. For instance, how do we write the banality of disempowerment and silence in face of incremental violence? How does identity come across in translation of languages and spaces which share a relation of kinship with that of ours? How do we trace these kinships? Poetry, prose and fiction are all welcome, though poetry will receive some preferential treatment. Translations from Urdu and Kashmiri are especially welcome.
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Huzaifa Pandit works as Assistant Professor, English at Government Degree College Pampore, Kashmir. He pursued his PhD on Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish: Poetics of Resistance’ at University of Kashmir. He is also the author of ‘Green is the Colour of Memory’ (Hawakal Publishers) which won the first edition of Rhythm Divine Poets Chapbook Contest 2017. Besides he is the winner of several poetry contests like Glass House Poetry Competition and Bound Poetry Contest. His poems, translations, interviews, essays and papers have been published in various journals like Post-Colonial Studies, Indian Literature, PaperCuts, Life and Legends, Jaggery Lit, JLA India, Outlook and Poetry at Sangam.
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