(… wherever we went) we found a spiky creeper. It grows along the walls that surround public buildings and private homes; it is curled around schools, mosques, abandoned temples, half-asleep hotels. Concertina wire is the most widespread form of vegetation in Kashmir today.
It grows everywhere, even in the mind.
– Ranjit Hoskote in his Introduction to his translation of 14th Century Kashmiri mystic and poet Lal Ded’s poems "I, LAILA".