about the author
Som Nath Bhat “Veer” was born in 1940 in Lok Bhawan, Dooru, Anantnag. After an MA in Hindi he worked as a teacher and retired as Headmaster of the Government High School, Dooru. He also read radio news in Urdu and Kashmiri. He has published several volumes of poetry and prose including Deewan-e-Veer (Collected Works). This poem was originally published in Aalav (November–December 2003), 40–41.
about the translator
Suvir Kaul is the A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the author of four books, including most recently Of Garden and Graves, a collection of his essays on the conflict in Kashmir as well as poems that Kaul has translated into English.
