Mourning those killed in Kulgam yesterday. Standing with those whose homes were violated in house to house searches:

“mourning those martyred by india in combat and protest. in resistance for sure but also in deep fear. such thoughts abound: is this a repeat uprising which india will brutally quell, undermine and appropriate? what will be the “hasil?” all around there is increasing anguish, agonizing. there are calls for better strategy. there is hope and desire for options in a brutal polity where only illusion of choice is made to exist. how does one go forward? how does one face the day and the night? and how does one commemorate those who don’t mull but take bullets and pellets like play darts and those who are waiting to do so. to stay faithful to resistance in forms one chooses takes courage of a flame in a thunderstorm. is there even a choice ever? in this time it seems all answers have become questions even when tremendous courage abounds.”

–Ather Zia

Painting: Exiled Home by Rollie Mukherjee

(Thank you Irfan Mehraj)