The supreme courts order on stray dogs is terribly over simplistic and displays no understanding of how neighbourhood and communities are organised and animals are beloved to local spaces, often fed and looked after & protecting people back in return. A dog haters verdict
This love doesn't announce itself, doesn't take up space just to be seen.
It moves like second nature, like fingers braiding hair mid-laughter, like muscle memory in motion.
It is the hook of her arm in mine, the mascara wand held steady, the borrowed dress that fits like home.
It is having someone who meets your joy with open hands,
saying, tell me everything.
And meaning it.
It is hands held under bathroom stalls, tears wiped with bare palms,
the kind of love that cries with you, that believes in you,
when you forget how to.
If I were PM, I’d have tasked a team with building a multistory colony called Insaniyat Villa in Anantnag, then tracked down every self-righteous preacher like him, and forcefully relocated them there, with no security, no option to leave, and then watched Insaniyat protect them.
They were not killed because they were “tourists”. They were killed because they were Hindus. Had the “tourists” been Muslim, they would have been spared. Don’t let anyone whitewash this fact. They. Were. Massacred. Because. They. Were. Hindus #palgham