
Jalees Hyder is a Kashmiri writer, poet, and frontline resistance educator born and raised under Indian occupation in Srinagar’s downtown. A survivor of military torture and medical neglect, he carries a lived memory of Kashmir’s siege in his body. Jalees speaks as a witness to brutality, a bearer of ancestral memory, and a bridge between resistance movements across the world. His work draws from bloodline, loss, and survival but above all, from an unshakable moral vision: liberation, not just for Kashmir, but for all who resist.