Poet Madhosh loses home and life’s work during Balhama gunfight

Curls of smoke still rose up from the debris of what was once the home of Ghulam Muhammad Bhat also known as Madhosh Balhami. Now all that is left of the two-storey house built by his father in 1967 are a few standing walls pockmarked with bullet holes and soot, piles of broken bricks and concrete. Glancing around with an expression of deep hurt and agony, Bhat sobs not for the home he lost but for the poetry he had written over the course of the last three decades, which…

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