Ashaq Hussain Parray is a PhD student of English at Aligarh Muslim University writing a dissertation on Mirza Ghalib. He has published poems and translations in Bombay Literary Magazine, nether Quarterly, Punch Magazine, and Inverse Journal.
"In a conflict-ridden space like Kashmir, can working-class people express and understand the world in a language that is not their own, while simultaneously aspiring to be upwardly mobile? Is…
