Caught between an unending history of political violence and the ongoing everyday violence of living in a militarized time, Kashmiris see themselves and their landscape as kharāb or a ruin that they attend to as they return to ordinary living after an event of political violence. Arif Nairang argues that such attention produces a unique and liminal experience of being and becoming a witness to kharābi or ruination. Confronted as a void in which people live, move and change, the landscape is transformed into an archive of time-images that make the present exigent. Living in the presence of such an archive, incapacitates and causes a loss of interpretive capability but it also brings a critical ability to doubt with which one actively anticipates and imagines an end.