Amama Bashir
Amama Bashir is an aspiring Kashmiri writer. She has majored in literature and is working towards earning a doctorate in English literature. As she puts it, her thoughts, observations, and emotions make more sense on paper and over the years she has tried to perfect the art of thinking on paper. Her work has been published in various literary magazines. She is currently compiling her parents’ experiences as muhajirs in writing.
Fiction (translation)
سڑک پر
میں اپنے ارد گرد بیچین نظروں سے دیکھتی ہوں، کسی کپڑے کی تلاش میں۔ اور اس کے ملتے ہی اپنی انگلیاں سُکھاتی ہوں، جو نمی سے جھری دار ہو گئی ییں۔ میں ایک ایک کر کے انگلیوں کو سُکھاتی ہوں، اور سونے کی انگوٹھی کی غیرموجودگی کو محسوس کرتی ہوں۔
Essay
Language
I often see their faces turning red to blue to purple to pale again as they struggle to find words to describe what they are feeling until, eventually, they give up. They always give up.
I kept rereading, trying to read between the lines, looking for more than there was perhaps. One word that struck with me was ‘ghar’…