Agnishekhar

Agnishekhar or Agni Shekhar (born 1956)[1] is a Kashmiri Pandit writer and political activist.[2] As a poet, he has contributed to the development of a Hindi poetry of exile from a distinctly Kashmiri perspective.[3] He is a founder of Panun Kashmir ("Our Kashmir"), a group that advocates for the cultural rights of Pandits and a homeland.[4] He views pre-Islamic culture as a source for contemporary Pandit identity.[5]

Agnishekhar is the author of Kisi Bhi Samay (At Any Moment), a collection of poetry published in 1992. The book is organized into two sections: the 49 poems of "Kram" ("Sequence"), and the ten poems of "Visthapit Kashmir" ("Displaced Kashmir") which differ from "Kram" in being labeled by place of composition (always Jammu) and a date ranging from mid-1990 to early 1991.[6] The poem "Mahavipada" ("Great Trouble"), from the "Displaced Kashmir" section, criticizes the camps into which displaced Pandits were settled.[7]

Agnishekhar also contributed to the screenplay for the "Bollywood-style" movie Sheen, which uses Pandit displacement as the context of a love story.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 2012), p. 768.
  2. ↑ Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), p. 160.
  3. ↑ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, p. 768.
  4. ↑ Kabir, Territory of Desire, p. 167.
  5. ↑ Kabir, Territory of Desire, p. 169.
  6. ↑ Kabir, Territory of Desire, p. 162.
  7. ↑ Kabir, Territory of Desire, p. 166–167.
  8. ↑ Kabir, Territory of Desire, p. 170.

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