I attended a presentation by Syed Bismillah Geelani. the brother of SAR Geelani. He was narrating about his experiences during the arrest,torture, solitary confinement, death penalty, and the subsequent release of his brother.

He recounts that how after being released from the police station at Lodhi road, he went to call his relatives in Kashmir, 'that night when we returned I went out to the nearby STD booth to phone our family members in Kashmir. The STD owner did not allow me to use the phone. I went to another STD booth. The response there was also the same. Then my sister in Law went to the third one. The owner of this booth said politely that it would create problems for him if we phoned from this booth. After that we sent five year old Atif, my brother's son, to a booth thinking that a child would not arouse fear or suspicion. but we were mistaken. Finally we had to go all the way to Kingsway Camp to make a phone call.'

What I found impelling and significant in his narration was the alacrity with which the image of SAR Geelani and his whole family was constructed immediately after the incident. His family including his five year old son had to deal with the disbursal of a fallacious claim that he was a terrorist. That people with whom his family engaged with everyday refused to acknowledge the family's presence. The refusal resulted in the distancing of that which was proximate, refusal was not necessarily because the charge or the subsequent arrest was stigmatic but it seemed to carry the combined burden of many fears.

Bismillah Geelani narrates further that how various actors like the police, the mass media including electronic and print news, television and the film industry had help shape, reinforce and distribute the figure of SAR Geelani as a terrorist with a deep investment in spreading fear and advancing terror.