Ifreen Raveen, Author at INVERSE JOURNAL

Ifreen Raveen

Ifreen Raveen is a postgraduate student in journalism at AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She writes fiction and non-fiction with a focus on human rights, conflict and gender. Ifreen has published articles with Free Press Kashmir, The Kahmir Walla, The Quint, The Wire, The Citizen and fiction with Kitaab as well as producing media projects with Maktoob.

Crazy Old Jabar Khan Is Leaving Again — A Short Story by Ifreen Raveen

Set in Chakothi, a village halfway between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, Ifreen Raveen’s short story follows the life of Jabar Khan, an old man separated from his family during the partition of Kashmir between India and Pakistan. In focussing on the protagonist’s longing for reunion, Raveen produces a compelling piece of fiction that ascends from an individual’s struggle and grief into the collective state of those displaced and separated during the 1947 partition.