Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus Of The Kashmiri Pandits (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Our Moon has Blood Clots is the story of tolerant hindu minority community in the kashmir valley, who were evicted forcefully from their homes in 1990, and has been in exile ever since. The author in a biographical account narrates the incidents leading upto the events, and the pain and suffering that fell upon his family.The gut wrenching story and the lump in the throat moments keeps coming relentlessly, as one tries to make sense of all that the author lays bares in those pages. Long after you have finished reading the book, the one lines in the book will stay with you for long....why must for your azadi (freedom) the kashmiri pandits die...Successive governments have done little to restore the pride of this community,leave alone their homes. While the world has sympathy for all displaced exiled communities in this world, the KPs are yet to get their due.After reading the book, the author has successfully made me sympathetic to his cause, and i wish they get justice in their lifetime. so much inhumanity and injustice right here in our Bharat, and mainstream media did not tell us about it - the urban, city people - about this marginalized community.I am looking to read his book on the Maoist movement also now, to understand the real story away from the bullshit that the media feeds us on a daily basis. This is some book. I will be upfront and tell you that prior to this book, I knew very little about Kashmir Pandit's exodus. I knew it happened. This book is Rahul Pandita's memoir. It tells you how the exodus affected him and his family and haunted him throughout his life. Its been more than two decades but the author have still not been able to bring it to a close. Salute to Rahul and more books like this please. Excellent read.
What do You think about Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus Of The Kashmiri Pandits (2013)?
Heart-wrenching, painful, brutal. Reminds me of Anne Frank's diary in many ways.
—Maddi
Excellent description of plight of Kashmiri pandits...
—tarahoda
