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The Lambs of My Valley I keep getting asked – “this silent majority that you keep talking about, why is it silent? Why doesn’t it speak up? Why did they not protest every time a Kashmiri Muslim got killed be it civilian, policeman, or collateral, forget the Kashmiri Pandit? If there is a silent majority in the Valley which does not support this “Ideological Occupation” by extremists, this proxy war with India by Pakistani-military establishment, why then have they not ever spoken up? Why are they still silent? These are good questions with easy answers, in fact; the answer lies in the question itself – ‘extremism and occupation. Readers are now able to connect extremism with the 9/11 event and its aftermath. Yet, the occupation of our Valley by radical groups, funded by a failed state, wanting to preserve its divisive and destructive two-nation theory has not been just thirty years old but decades older since 1947. We now call this prolonged war by Pakistan as its ‘unfinished

Yasin Malik, whose terrorist organisation JKLF, initiated the drive against minorities and other victims in late 80's. Truth & Reconciliation Part 1: Can all Kashmiri Muslims be blamed for Pandit exodus? The last three decades in the valley of Kashmir have witnessed unprecedented levels of terrorism and violence, resulting in the mass exodus of Pandit (Hindu) minorities in the early 1990’s and leaving tens of thousands of terrorists and civilians from the Kashmiri Muslim community dead.  Obviously, the conflict has extracted a bigger cost from the Muslim majority. We need to understand that in terms of murders, kidnappings, rapes, loot, and humiliation at the hands of terrorists, the Muslim Kashmiris who did not flee from the valley have suffered the most, because they had to endure terrorism  for three decades and still do. Muslims also paid the price for counterinsurgency operations, excess use of force in mob control, fake encounters, torture, harassment, and hum

Apologia Apocalypse Part 1:  The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits  vs. The 3 Little Litigants #EpicRapBattlesOfHistory WHO WILL WIN? It’s that time again, folks. Kashmiri Hindus, refugees from 30 years, get a chance at closure, and, as expected, a stale salvo of denials from the usual separatist Muslim suspects is launched, in the name of reconciliation, once again. Dispelling this cancerous denial is verily a fulltime whack-a-mole Sisyphean job. Here we go again. This time it is 3 Little Litigants, instead of 30,000 Militants. I join battles alongside my Pandit friends daily, but the last time I wrote a “long read” was to rebut the bad reviews given by Deniers (similar to the Litigants) to Rahul Pandita’s memoir, Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of The Kashmiri Pandits . Coincidentally, this time also Rahul Pandita is involved, as he is the co-writer of yet-to-be-released Bollywood film Shikara: The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits . This time, the pandemo