I always loved neatness.

Postcard from Kashmir Agha Shahid Ali Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox,my home a neat four by six inches. They are both, however, resigned to accept it and comply with that struggle. Kashmir is his orientation.

He grew up in Kashmir, the son of a distinguished and highly educated family in Agrarian. From the night of 4th of August, Jammu and Kashmir has been plunged into radio silence.

That may be the reason behind his chagrin, if it isn’t called rage. 12:00PM BST 24 Sep 2001. The Kashmir dispute dates from 1947. But Kashmir is not a representation of Agha Shahid Ali's exile — least from the nation-states of Pakistan or India.

The Internet doesn't work, the phone lines are dead, and Section 144 has been imposed. When he says ?Now I hold the half inch city of Himalayas in my hand, this is home? It pins his poetry, via bloodlines, to that map of his motherland. He is credited with single-handedly introducing the classical ghazal to America and the West, which spurred a whole bunch of native English writers trying their hand at the ghazal. The speaker from Postcard from Kashmir longs for a topographical “there” while the mother in Elena just yearns for the understanding she once had with her family.

They both feel as if the past surpassed in many ways their present. Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) was a poet, translator and academic from Kashmir. “Postcard from Kashmir” by Gaga Shady Ala Gaga Shady Ala “Postcard from Kashmir” Gaga Shady Ala was born in New Delhi, India in 1949. (Lines 3-5), we see that the postcard has done nothing but further intensified his longing.

Now I holdthe half-inch Himalayas in my hand. In an age of commercialization and packaging, probably the postcard “creates” a Kashmir that the speaker had neither seen nor heard of. A brief history of the Kashmir conflict.

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) was a poet, translator and academic from Kashmir. Thus the postcard held in hands in the present time re-presents an extinct Kashmir at the best, probably not even that. In ?Postcard from Kashmir," the speaker of the poem yearns to go back to Kashmir, a place he once called home.

He is credited with single-handedly introducing the classical ghazal to America and the West, which spurred a whole bunch of native English writers trying their hand at the ghazal.

This is home. The partition of the Indian sub-continent along religious lines led to …