Tag: Kashmiri Pandits
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The Return of the Kashmiri Pandit
By: Dr. Sadaf Munshi “The Return of the Kashmiri Pandit” – this phrase has come to sound like that famous 1985 horror movie-cum-black comedy The Return of the Living Dead. Given that we Kashmiris are so hypersensitive that a slight tinge of satire may stoke unwanted emotions, I hope being candid does not lead to…
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Revisiting the question of the Kashmiri Pandits: The battle of the narratives
Every year the people of the Kashmiri Pandit (KP) and Kashmiri Muslim (KM) communities commemorate the month of January 1990 for the beginning of an era of two structurally different but extremely bitter and painful experiences: the “exodus” of the former facilitated by an atmosphere of immense fear and terror and the beginning of the…
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Revisiting the Question of the Kashmiri Pandits: The Battle of the Narratives
By: Dr. Sadaf Munshi Every year the people of the Kashmiri Pandit (KP) and Kashmiri Muslim (KM) communities commemorate the month of January 1990 for the beginning of an era of two structurally different but extremely bitter and painful experiences: the “exodus” of the former facilitated by an atmosphere of immense fear and terror and…
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The Burnt Shrine: A Personal Journey in Kashmir
As a child I grew up in a fairly peaceful period of Kashmir, listening to the stories of Heemaal-Nagray, Zehra Let, Lal Ded and Haba Khatoon. Weekends were spent waiting for Doordarshan to broadcast the one and only Hindi movie a week on a well-to-do neighbor’s black-n-white television set. Life was quite laid back and…
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Swim Along the Stream
“History has seen such times when the crime was committed by a moment, but the punishment was suffered by centuries”. (Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah) In retrospect, for more than half a century now India and Pakistan have been engaged in attempts to resolving the question as to whether the accession of the State of Jammu and…
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