"Aalov is an unceasing call. It’s a shout, a yell, a cry, a high-pitched howl that startles and soothes, scrapes and caresses, laments and laughs, all the while asking, demanding a listen, a hearing, and a response. It’s a call from Kashmiri women that rings with defiance, sounds of passion and love, and reverberates with resistance." 

/Sabahat Ali Wani

"Voices of Aalov emerge from different corners of Kashmir, but they meet in their insistence on presence. Together, they widen the literary and political imagination through which Kashmiri women are read, heard, and remembered. These poems do not simply decorate the page; they inhabit it fully. They are living texts, pulsing with memory, ache, and defiance."

/Zahanat

"[My poems]...carry longing, lurk on skin, and whisper an eternal hymn. They call as a lover does or a foe, speak of self and past’s living ghosts. They, their every word, are Aalov of soul."

/Aiman Wani

"Aalov is a calling: a call to listen before speaking, attend to voices that have been interpreted rather than heard, and recognise storytelling as a witnessing act. [My]...poems answer that call. They do not speak for Kashmiri women but speak from our plurality, contradictions, and shared inheritances. If they offer anything, I hope it is the possibility of recognition—that another woman might encounter these poems and believe that her own life, too, is worthy of language."

/Irtiza Manzoor

"[My poetic voice]...answers Aalov. [My]...poems express what weighs on the pit of the stomach. They linger in the realm where what Kristeva terms the semiotic disrupts the symbolic order...they inhabit spaces where beauty and violence remain grotesquely intertwined, refusing the comfort of abstraction."

/Zuha Bint Ur Raziyah

"Aalov, to me, is an invitation, a calling to look at things we often pass by: places we can’t seem to leave behind, voices we carry within us, lingering memories, and unnamed feelings. [My]...poems contain those places, voices, memories, and feelings. They show what I have felt, lost, and carried. Through them, I want to reach out, extend my hand, hoping that my words become a place of recognition for someone out there."

/Mariya Qadri