Inverse Journal

Mirum Quazi

A’mai — A Poem by Mirum Quazi

Mirum Quazi presents a poem about the experience of losing a grandparent, one that is grounded in the feeling of being uprooted and suspended within a space drawn between memory and its recollection. These verses dare to explore and confront the exact moment of such a loss. In doing so, the poem gro

Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Embodiment and its ‘Return to the Body’ — A Commentary by Mirum Quazi

Mirum Quazi applies Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s “Theory of Embodiment” and its articulation of “Return to the Body” to the act of artmaking. In the process, the writer demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty’s ideas about the “embodied self” can be understood and appreciated by taking artmaking as a prime exampl

Towards a Home-grown Kashmiri Cinema - Part I — by Mirum Quazi

Mirum Quazi provides a few meditations on cinema, visual culture and the applications of the field in a Kashmiri context. In particular, he explores the possibilities of a distinctive visual language that is developed within Kashmiri culture itself.