CONTRIBUTIONS

Adding Insult to Injury / Hirra Sultan / Perspective
Mahatta, Voyage of Marque and Its Makers / Arif Nazir / Feature
Recounting Ghazal / Huzaifa Pandit / Essay
Game of Gore / Iqbal Mehraj / Short Story
Munnu: A Personal Insight into Everyday Life in Kashmir / Muhammad Nadeem / Review
The Veiled Woman Beyond the Simplicity of the Discussion / Asim Qureshi / Review
Whispers of a Broken Spring, Slow Rain, Departure / Faizan Habib / Poetry
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff 
Playing With Fire / Adil Hussain / Photo Essay
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS

Of Death, Loss, Survival: Kashmir's Tryst With COVID Calendar / Adil Amin Akhoon / Feature
‘My Dope Became My Friend’: An Ex-Druggie's Retrospection / Badar Bashir / Narrative
The Spring of Sketches and Scathes / Nakhat A. / Essay
The Melancholy Town Where No One Smiles / Sarib Yousuf / Short Story
Family, Fear and Friendship / Muhammad Nadeem / Review
The Winter of Hi(s)tory / Saba Zahoor / Poetry
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff 
Pandemic Prisoner: Life of a COVID Positive / Adil Abass / Photo Essay
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS

When Headhunting Ended the Last Truce at LoC / Idress Mir / Feature
Bund, Baton and Baron / Arif Nazir / Feature
The Girl With a Red Umbrella / Hirra Sultan / Perspective
Row Over Aurangzeb Revived Kashmir’s Muslim Rule / Garsha Sai Nitesh / Essay
Bab Lived Life King-Size / Tanveer Magrey / Profile
The Stolen Stars / Hana Vahab / Short Story
War and (Still No) Peace / Yash Daiv / Review
The Vale of Ashes / Abrar Fayaz / Poetry
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff 
Pursuit of Peace / Saqib Ali / Photo Essay
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS

Watchmakers of Kashmir’s Frozen Time Square / Arif Nazir / Feature
Life Hostage to LoC Hostility / Idrees Mir / Analysis
Rantus Redux: Those Childhood Mythical Creatures / Hirra Azmat / Essay
A Grave Shock in Kashmir / Zubair Chisti / Reportage
Amanat, My Guardian Angel / Safiya Shah / Short Story
The Professor’s Perspective and Protagonist / Hirra Sultan/ Review
Rumour Has It… / Seerat Wani / Poetry
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff 
Brooding Eyes on Bridge / Arif Nazir, Darsh Dawood / Photo Essay
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS

The Pandit Who Heals Wounds / Arif Nazir / Feature
Politics of Land / Shuja Hamid / Analysis
‘You Claim The War Is Long Over’: Anatomy of a Nazm / Huzaifa Pandit / Essay
The Chocolate Cake / Bashash Mahmood / Short Story
The Intimate Reckoning of Living With Fear / Muhammad Nadeem / Review
The Faithful Portrayal of Islam / Sahar Aslam / Review
On the Advancement of the Torture Industry in Kashmir / Sameem Wani / Poetry
A Man Vanished / Saliq Parvaiz / Poetry
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff 
Distraught Buds of Valley / Bilal Ahmad / Photo Essay
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS

I Know What They Did Last Summer / Hirra Sultan / Perspective
Grammar of Grit / Huzaifa Pandit / Essay
The Life of Poet—Louise Glück—in One Poem: The Wild Iris / Muhammad Nadeem / Feature
Frankenstein in Kashmir / Takbeer Salati / Short Story
Letter to a Dead Poet / Maruj ul Muntaha / Letter
A Woman is No Man / Ahlam Yassin / Commentary
Friendship in a War-torn World / Staff Review / Book Review
Herr Coloniser / Danish Hassan / Poetry
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff 
Shades and Shadows of Seasonal Schooling / Arif Bashir Wani / Photo Essay
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS

Collective Conscience: A Benchmark for Sacrifice /Aurif Muzafar / Perspective
The Death of Identity / Ubair Fayaz Fazili / Opinion
Kashmir’s Secret Samaritans / Adil Amin Akhoon / Feature
The Shoes / Younis Ahmad Kaloo / Short Story
Metamorphosis / Ghulam Mohammad Khan / Short Story
Gowhar Geelani’s Kashmir: Rage and Reason / Staff Review / Book Review
Kashmir Odyssey / Staff Review / Book Review
I Dream in the Language of Funerals & Scream / Faizan Habib Wani / Poetry
Weighing Scales Measuring My Narrative & The Exodus of a City / Samia Mehraj / Poetry
If Only We Can Remember / Muhammad Nadeem / Poetry
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff 
On the Streets of Srinagar / Sharafat Ali / Photo Story
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS
On Knowing Who One Is / Self Help
Why I No Longer Recommend Murakami / Farukh Naseem
Figuring / Maria Popova 
Don't Ask Her to Talk About Love / Ayisha Malik
The Concept of Morality / Dr Hammudah Abdalati 
From the Diary of an Extremist / Umm Zakkiyah
Letter to a Dead Father / Peerzada Muzamil 
The Waves of Confusion / Faizan Akbar Wani
Syria / Amal Kassir
Ghazal / Shabir Ahmad Mir
Unlearning / Chifa K
My Hero in My Homeland / Muneed Majid
What a Murakami Novel Does to the Soul / Ubair Fayaz Fazili 
Rage, Fury and Desire / Muhammad Nadeem
Human Psychology, Gender Ambiguity and Search for Answers / Staff Review
Staff Recommendations / Mountain Ink Staff
Photo Story / Aijaz Ganai
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink Staff

CONTRIBUTIONS

Do Not Come Begging to Kashmiri Artists / Amjad Majid
A Circus Called Citizenship / Chitra Rajpal
A Kashmiri Solution for Kashmir / Eqbal Ahmad
Kashmir and its Challenges / Eqbal Ahmad
Interview with Dr Eqbal Ahmad / David Barsamian
The Dyer’s Day Out / Nageen Rather
George Saunder’s Lincon in the Bardo / Areeb Ahmad
Science vs Atheism / Muhammad Nadeem
Sheereen and Khusrau / Mahmood Gaami
The Lonely Soul of Takherghat / Sangbit Samaddar
7 Paintings by Tabish Haider / Tabish Haider
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink

CONTRIBUTIONS

Kashmiris Have Shown Grace Under Pressure / Gowhar Geelani
The Feelings of Despicable Revenge / Ubair Fayaz Fazili
The Role of Journalism in a Post-truth Era / Munawar Hussain
Intimations of an Ending / Arundhati Roy
The Man Who Died Twice / Peerzada Muzamil
Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte / Areeb Ahmad
The Meadow / Muhammad Nadeem
Arrives / Shabir Ahmad Mir
Dawn of Freedom (August 1947) / Faiz Ahmad Faiz — Agha Shahid Ali
On Wheels / Aijaz Ganaie
Bookshelf / Mountain Ink

Contents:
• The Assets of Usual Contempt
• Does Islam Need Saving? An Analysis of Human Rights
• In Search of Lost Home
• Case of an Unmarried Mother
• When I Hit You
• From Narrative to Myth
• Language of Wrong Dreams
• Ends of February & Remember
• Bookshelf

The issue contains short-opinion on the current situation in Kashmir. It also encompasses different narratives of the conflict zone of Kashmir through shortstories and photo essays.

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February 2020

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