Zahid Rafiq

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Zahid Rafiq |Shakir Mir |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy

One of the characters in Zahid Rafiq’s collection of 11 short stories set in Kashmir, The World with its Mouth Open, is a young boy who fails at the tasks set by his tutor: to draw parts of the human anatomy or solve complex mathematical puzzles. As he struggles with it, his mind wanders off, alighting on memories of playing football with his friends or of wrestling with his cousins.