Babra Sharief, Author at INVERSE JOURNAL

Babra Sharief

Babra Sharief is a Young India Fellow in Liberal Arts at Ashoka University. She has done her Masters in English Literature from University of Kashmir. Born and brought up in conflict-ridden Kashmir, she believes that poetry is a powerful form of resistance and a perfect medium of representation for the grotesque suffering and alienation of those torn apart by war. She is looking forward to pursuing her research in resistance literature that has shaped and captivated revolutions across cultures. Her other interests include dystopian literature, mysticism, performed poetry and music.

I Am Shahid — A Poem by Babra Sharief

February 20, 2020 | Poetry

Babra Sharief’s poem ties a knot between the grief of the most recognized Kashmiri poet in contemporary times and the grief found in the poetic voice of her verses. Such a poetic unfolding retrieves the sense of loss that Agha Shahid Ali mourned in many of his poems, thereby making such a lament the inheritance of the young poet and her readers, particularly the Kashmiri ones.