Scroll.in features verses about their homeland by poets from Kashmir, from the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits to the communications blockade, curated by Urvashi Bahuguna.

The poems:

• What name shall you give it? by Omair Bhat
• The Exodus of a City by Samia Mehraj
• Driving Lolita in the World’s Most Militarised Zone by yours truly, Rafiq Kathwari
• Gifts for My Daughter Not Yet Conceived by Asiya Zahoor
• one lazy august afternoon from a childhood in Kashmir by Ather Zia