About — Poshe Daswaan

A Bouquet of Flowers from the Garden of Thought

Poshe Daswaan is a personal journal of memory, culture, poetry, law, and public affairs. Through its pages, Advocate Farooq Ahmad Khan shares reflections drawn from a lifetime of public service, legal practice, literary pursuits, and engagement with the social and cultural life of Kashmir.

Like a bouquet composed of flowers of different colours and fragrances, this platform brings together poetry, opinion, heritage, faith, and lived experience — offering readers a collection of thoughts intended to inform, inspire, and provoke reflection.

“Poshe Daswaan” is not merely a website; it is a bouquet of ideas, memories, and aspirations gathered over a lifetime and presented with sincerity to readers and fellow travellers on the journey of knowledge and understanding.

Farooq Ahmad Khan

Advocate at the Srinagar Wing of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh

Former Deputy Commissioner of Doda

Srinagar, Kashmir

Farooq Ahmad Khan practises as an advocate at the Srinagar Wing of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. His public-service career included serving as Managing Director Jammu and Kashmir Cable Car Croporation, Deptuy Commisioner, Director of Social Wellfare and Director Panchayati Raj J&K. This site is his authored archive of essays, legal commentary, cultural observation, and verse rooted in Kashmir — a place where public questions and private memory share the same page, and neither is treated as a footnote. It is built for patient reading: arguments given context, cultural details recorded before they are lost, and poems given the room they need.

Three Principles

About This Website

Poshe Daswaan is a Kashmiri phrase that speaks to matters of memory and affairs of recollection. It is the name chosen for this space, and it captures something essential about what it seeks to do here.

This is not a news site. It is not a legal blog in the conventional sense. It is not a poetry journal, though it contains poetry. It is a personal archive — the record of one person's engagement with the law, the culture, the language, and the people of a place he has spent his life trying to understand and serve.

The writing here moves between registers: legal analysis, cultural observation, personal essay, and verse. What connects them is a voice — patient, specific, rooted in experience rather than theory. Writing about Article 370 the way one writes about a chinar tree: not because both are “topics,” but because both are part of what it means to live in Kashmir, to remember it, and to try to make sense of it.

This site is built to last. There are no ads, no analytics, no newsletter signups, no comments section. The relationship it seeks is between a reader and a writer — the oldest relationship in literature. If you find something here that stays with you, that is enough.