Hues of Pain: The Broken Valley – the Bruised Paradise

By Unisa Sania

Hues of Pain is a collection of poems that illustrate the tales of oppression, ravage and wreckage in the beautiful valley of Kashmir. Each poem has a different subject who is affected in one way or the other due to the situations prevailing there. From lockdowns to protests, from shelling to pelleting, from killing innocents to crack downs and from internet ban to communication lockdown. The book gets across various stories of loss, pain, agony, despair, loneliness and deaths. It has tales of mothers wailing for their sons, fathers anxious about their daughters, brothers trying to save the chastity of their sisters, sisters praying for their brothers to return home alive, wives waiting for their husbands and children growing up listening to cracking sounds of guns. This book pictures the journey of a valley which was best known as paradise on earth to being a bleeding and burning hell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Aug 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781543759808

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ISBN: 978-1-5437-5979-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5437-5980-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020913640

08/27/2020

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Quote

Author’s note

Acknowledgment

1.  The Nights

2.  Raped Valley

3.  Bunker

4.  Sun didn’t shine

5.  The land without Summer

6.  When skies shed tears

7.  A martyr

8.  Walls of Prison

9.  No lullabies

10.  Azadi

11.  Eyes don’t see

12.  Graves

13.  The lockdown

14.  No home to miss

15.  I can see his mole

16.  Boulevard

17.  A prayer

18.  Mazaar-e-Shuhada

19.  Pigeon post

20.  An unborn soul

21.  Isn’t a house like that

22.  The sunset

23.  She cannot breathe

24.  No more a half mother

25.  I cannot speak

26.  The