Kashmiri exodus

Director Vivek Agnihotri’s film The Kashmir Files that meticulously documents the planned attempt at ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley has been labelled vulgar and a work of propaganda by the jury’s head Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid. The film was screened at the prestigious International Film Festival of India in Goa. “It seemed […]

  SRINAGAR: The painful, heart-wrenching memories of the early 1990s were once again returned to shake our collective consciousness as, amid target killings, another exodus of Kashmiri Pandits is underway in Kashmir. Besides the Kashmiri Pandits, who had returned to their ancestral lands with a renewed hope following the government’s initiative to bring them back, […]

I have grown up reading Holocaust literature, eventually teaching ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ to my batches year after year. It instilled a lot of perspective in me from a very early age, keeping a stoic attitude towards life’s hammer blows being a good way to survive, and believe me, living in a Muslim culture, […]

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey, General-Officer-Commanding (GOC) of Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, on Thursday said that the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley was a blot on Kashmir and Kashmiriyat. Addressing a seminar on “Kashmir At Historic Roads” here, Lt Gen Pandey said, “What will encourage them to return, how and when will they […]