Qasida for When I Became a Woman is a lyrical reckoning with state violence, exile, and the intimate afterlives of loss. In these poems, a Kashmiri daughter speaks back to the killing of her father, Ghulam Nabi Sheikh, a professional musician and renowned ghazal singer of Kashmir, by Indian police and to the silence that followed: a body disappeared, a claimed cremation, a story almost erased. Moving between Kashmir and the United States, trains and subway cars, police stations and courthouses, and family homes, the collection traces how grief travels across borders and generations, and how language and music keep the dead present.
Weaving documentary detail with prayer, myth, and song, the poems explore what it means to grow into womanhood under conditions of surveillance, militarization, and inequality. The personal and political are inseparable here: a daughter's search for the truth behind her father's death opens into larger questions of occupation, belonging, and women's equality. At the same time, the book is an ode to mothers, to survival, and to the quiet but radical labor of care.
With vivid imagery and cadences shaped by ghazal and free verse, Qasida for When I Became a Woman invites readers into a landscape where memory resists erasure and poetry bears witness when official records fail. The collection has received critical attention from Kirkus Reviews and The US Review of Books.
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