'No everlasting peace in J&K without Kashmiri Pandits'

September 05, 2014 14:09

Journalist Rahul Pandita, a Kashmiri Pandit and author of Our Moon Has Blood Clots, in an interview to Rediff.com in May, says, "No matter how many homes I own in Delhi, or any part of the world, as far as I am concerned, there is only one home and that is what was left in Kashmir in the 1990s.

The moment you talk about Kashmiri Pandits -- after all, we were a religious minority in Kashmir -- and how they being in a minority were targeted it doesn't go down well and no one speaks about it. That is the saddest and most ironical aspect of this whole tragedy.

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