Abstract 141. Dr
Khursheed Ahmad Qazi
Reading Dissent in Aga Shahid’s Selected Poems
Since times immemorial dissent, resistance or protest have been the very strong
means of expression of anger, distress, suffering and pain. None can deny the
fact that the hegemony demonstrated by colonial masters years back taught
people all across the world to suppress, rule and emerge as masters only to
spread anguish, chaos, and exploitation. This has invariably resulted in suffering
of common masses especially marginality who don’t have means to voice their unfortunate,
unheard and unvoiced plight. Writers all across, being sensitive souls, have expressed
their painful heart rending reactions in their writings. One such voice has
been Aga Shahid Ali who talked in his poetry about his homeland which has seen gruesome
moments of agony and turmoil. This
paper makes a humble attempt to interpret his few poems such as Dear Shahid, I See Kashmir from New Delhi
& Country without Post Office for
tracing the element of resistance and dissent in them.
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