Katej Myani Gamitch (The swallow of my village)
Shad Ramzaan’s recent poem “Katej Mayani Gamitch (The swallow of my village ) seems on the surface a tender story of a swallow returning to her birthplace after years of absence. But like the bird herself katij in Kashmiri, the poem carries more than feathers and flight. It carries memory, longing, loss, displacement and perhaps most importantly, a quiet plea to remember what we once were as … Read more
