Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this. - Arundhati Roy

The nights are clear but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation.

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe.