The Creative Process: The Arts of War (Spring 2017)
The Creative Process is The Mumbai Art Collective's flagship magazine.
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<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>War</strong><br />
This poem was written by Daniyal in response to the attacks in Idlib,<br />
Syria. Accompanying the poem was this statement by him:<br />
“P.S — a lot <strong>of</strong> people ask me, kya ghuma phiraa<br />
k Syria, Yemen pe aajata hai tu?<br />
When will you stop writing about it?<br />
I always have the same reply: When will the war<br />
stop?”<br />
Daaniyal’s poetry is not just a plea for appeasement, but also a cry<br />
against the sanitisation <strong>of</strong> war. <strong>The</strong> poem that he presents in<br />
response to the horrific attack, one that he recounts in graphic detail,<br />
is a cooptation <strong>of</strong> the horrors <strong>of</strong> war, and the creation <strong>of</strong> a second<br />
memory by someone who has never stepped foot inside Syria and<br />
Yemen. Daaniyal tells TMAC that “When someone innocent dies,<br />
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