The Creative Process: The Arts of War (Spring 2017)

The Creative Process
getting into the poetry scene. Most of the spoken word poems in
English were well received and appreciated but he had to carve a
niche for Hindi poems. He had assumed poems performed in Hindi
would not be as popular as in English, but his contemporaries were
welcoming and encouraging which inspired him to keep at it. His
intention of writing poems was not to impart knowledge but his way
of sharing his pain with the world and wondering if it is capable to
feeling too. One of the most significant ways in which his poems
have contributed to his artistry is by providing him with an
opportunity to empathize with people. One of his struggles is to
recover after a poem becomes popular, to be able to compete with
his own poems is a task.
His poem Rhinchin and Dolma reveals the callousness of tourists and
photographers who come to Kashmir to capture its beauty
completely oblivious to the plight of the locals in Kashmir and their
fight for freedom and sustenance. People say that words are
powerful enough to change the world. Ramneek feels that through
his words he can evoke the grief of those families who have lost
members due to the attack on civilians in Kashmir. The pain of
migration when one loses what used to be their home. Through his
poems he intends to show the beauty of coexistence without letting
differences cause animosity. “It’s problematic when people refer to
Kashmir as Kashmir without sparing a single thought for the
Kashmiris who reside there!”
His recent poem ‘Acche Din’ on Kashmir is about a little girl who
has a disability and doesn’t understand the grave consequences of
living as a person with disability in a territory that is constantly under
threat. Her grandfather keeps writing letters to the Prime Minister
asking him to stop this fight over a piece of land. He writes:
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