“These narratives of death and departure are in fact narratives of life and arrival”   Suchitra Vijayan: Writers like Sebald have used ‘found images’ as a way of bridging the gap between the reality of the terror they witnessed (in case of Sebald, the Holocaust and post-war Germany loom large in his work) and the inadequacy of language. Similarly, Orson Welles used found footage of Elmyr de Hory from a BBC documentary for his F for Fake. Can you tell us what made you use these visceral audio goodbyes to write about the nature of violence and resistance in Kashmir?   Uzma Falak: I am incapable of telling a story. I experience and witness the world in fragments. Through my work I attempt to record this fragmentariness. The Last Call: Audio Postcards from Kashmir is also a fragmentary chronicle — several disjointed pieces on the verge of a story….

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