Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir
A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir

After false starting writing a review of this book so many times, I somehow get past the anxiety of saying what I wanted to say. Say it here. And with a simple hope, of someone picking up this book and reading it. Not because of this review only, but because of this review too. The inheritance of void......more

This is a poignant memoir. Rahul Pandita grew up Kashmir in the 1990s. As his name suggests, he is a Kashmiri Pandit. In Kashmir Valley, Muslims are in majority whereas Hindus constitute a small minority. The harsh Indian policies against Muslims have not only alienated them; they have made Muslims......more

Some books are difficult reads. I knew this one would be. And yet, at the end of it I felt very deeply disturbed. This is the story of the Kashmiri Pandits ethnic cleansing from Kashmir in the 1990s, told mostly as a personal story of the author’s own family. One can say that the problems in Kashmir......more

The book is a mind numbing first-hand account of the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990. Chronicles of the persecution of Hindus in the region beginning in the 9th century has been touched upon in the initial pages of the book. But such was the extent of suppression the Pandits experienced, tha......more

Rahul Pandita narrates a spellbinding tale of the exodus of Hindus from the Indian-administered Kashmir. Read the complete review here [URL not allowed]-3l.......more