• Sumit Garg

Kashmir is known as paradise on earth. It has been the subject of poetry for ages. The romantic description of Kashmir has captivated many authors as well as poets. Over a period of time, Kashmir has covered a terrible journey from the exquisite acreage to the territory of war and violence. Correspondingly literature has also followed the way and the focus was shifted from mystic, spiritual and romantic poetry to present day poetry. Many contemporary poets started writing on Kashmir realistically. Agha Shahid Ali is one such poet. Born and brought up in Srinagar, Kashmir Agha Shahid Ali is actually the heiress of three cultures-Muslim, Hindu and western. Reading Ali’s poetry under through the lens of Kashmir is intriguing to understand the poet’s traditional and cultural affiliations to his native land. The oeuvre of Ali is fraught with allusions of Kashmir. Being from Kashmiri genealogy many of Ali’s poems are the manifestation of the excruciating confrontation of individual experience about his distant homeland Kashmir. Present assignment is an attempt to examine and understand the echoes of Kashmir in the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali.

Kashmir, Poetry, Agha Shahid Ali, Violence, Nostalgia.

"ECHOES OF KASHMIR IN THE POETRY OF AGHA SHAHID ALI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no.217-219, February-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802332.pdf

"ECHOES OF KASHMIR IN THE POETRY OF AGHA SHAHID ALI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no. pp217-219, February-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802332.pdf