Even newborns have a story to tell.”
Stories need to be told boldly with literal taste. We at Kashmir currents believe literature is a medium to safely explore controversial and unpleasant topics and unfamiliar points of view. Our special mission is to diversify the existing literary community, both aesthetically and demographically: We aspire to publish styles and genres that remain untold and un
touched. We take particular pleasure in publishing voices that are not often included in the canon. We worry about the state of modern literature. We worry that it is too realist, monolithic, corporate, print-bound and locked in its own bubble; that is why we found Kashmir currents. We publish work that is political, experimental in form or content and we define both “political” and “experimental” broadly and boldly. “Political” can mean work that incorporates or comments on current events or it can mean literature and art that further personal dignity and advocate human rights. We regard “experimental” as work that breaks off from the canon, takes formal risks, or explores a strange or impossible point of view. Kashmir Currents is not a brainchild of some brainstorming sessions or heated discussions. It evolved through a systematic approach when its publishers found that Kashmiris are breaking the jinx of being coy. The publishers, as in their own words, say, “Shyness often shields talent. It needs a catalyst of a great human emotion to come out of the sheath of shyness.”
This magazine is owned and Published Co-operatively by its team. Groundbreaking but not a Reform Magazine; frank, impartial, searching for the True Causes; a Magazine directed against Rigidity; a Magazine whose final policy is to do as it pleases and conciliate Nobody, not even its Readers.
