Qazi Mizan: India has been suppressing the real voice of Kashmiris for decades they are not allowed to move freely and make decisions, they have turned their own homes into prisons, Kashmiris have never recognized Indian occupation.  Now the situation has reached the point where India has started silencing even the poets and teachers in Kashmir.

India`s atrocities in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir have escalated to such an extent that the disputed area is no longer habitable even for poets Due to the increase in Indian surveillance  they have no choice but to stop writing resistance poetry or read such poetry out of sight.

After the repeal of Article 370 of the Constitution With additional troops deployed in the valley, Indian forces have tightened their grip on Muslim-majority territory. One poet said that when the uprising in the Valley was at its height in the mid-1990s, his struggle for independence He used to recite poems at funerals of those who sacrificed their lives for which he was sent to jail In prison he wrote poetry and recited it to fellow inmates, for which the authorities dragged him and tied him with wrists and hung him with high voltage electric lamps now secretly reads and composes poetry as Indian authorities crack down on dissenters.

I have never seen such pressure in the last thirty years there is silence everywhere, as if silence is the best cure for our current crisis. A clash between Indian forces and Freedom fighter at his residence in 2018 resulted in the loss of his home and a thousand pages of poetry Police have called us several times in the last two years and said we were trying to create chaos India has largely suppressed our voices but we will have the spirit of freedom in our hearts.

Kashmiri poet Zubair said that we are not even allowed to breathe as long as we breathe according to the laws and the wishes of the government.  freedom of speech and complaint has been eroded and our lives are declining. Our language has been silenced. Journalists from Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have also been barred from leaving India and police Journalists who tweet have been threatened with anti-terrorism charges.

Police have also stopped peaceful protests at the special status of the   Kashmir, the shopkeepers do not open their shops, but with the help of iron bars and blades equipped government goons broke the locks of shops in Srinagar and Police were with those who broke the locks and were not doing anything to stop them.

Such serious incidents forced Kashmiri poet Zeeshan J. Puri to write a poem expressing concern over the current situation Zeeshan J. Puri, the grandson of a famous Kashmiri poet, has been in shock since 2010 when a 17-year-old neighbor was killed by a tear gas J Puri said that now we read our poetry in front of ourselves or some close friends He said that our throats are choked because the government does not want us to breathe in fresh air he also said that  Kashmiris will have independence and after that there will be pieces of India also divided and weak India is the best for peace in the region.