Suppressed Kashmiri expression is redirected toward the natural landscape itself
Evidence
With no freedom of speech or assembly or association to exercise in the face of Indian imperialism, Kashmiris are forced to tell it to the mountain. Those familiar mountains, hugging a land and a people who have seen it all and are destined to see far more. Standing there alongside them when nobody else will. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 522
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- FICTION: The image of a people forced to confide in mountains — land as the only remaining witness — is a strong literary motif for stories about silenced populations.