Rosa of Fiji
August 6, 2013
Fiji is not a strange place to me, I have been there before on many occasions mainly on work combined with a bit of well
March, 2022
'The Kashmir Files'- breaking the silence of a grieving generation
When suppressed emotional pain of a generation is shown in a manner it has, in the film The Kashmir Files, you will get an eruption of screams which cannot be blocked.
No other visual depiction of the true scale of suffering inflicted by terrorists on the Kashmir Hindu minorities has been shown in Indian cinema before.
How do you frame 32 years of hardship in a film of 170 minutes ?
By keeping it true, on point, layer by layer. That is exactly what is shown.
No matter how much deflection is inserted to cancel the truth, this time it will be heard, echoed and reflected everywhere.
The tragedy is that it took 32 years for this story to come at a national level. The Kashmiri Hindus have been heard for the first time in their own country. It is for the first time India has witnessed the sheer ordeal of their fellows Indians in Kashmir due to radical terrorism.
Of course, there is more. One would need a multiple series covering the Hindu exodus and its aftermath spanning 32 years.
Yes, three decades of grief.
There are hundreds if not thousands of horrifying true stories of the displaced Hindus from Kashmir who are still living in exile, who still dream of going back home.
Radical terrorism has mercilessly taken countless innocent lives. It has deprived native Hindus of their houses, homeland, livelihood, safety, culture, dignity and human rights.
It was a systematic genocide which started in 1990. The terrorism continued all of the 90’s and the 2000’s with almost negligible reporting that the suffering deserved. The targeted killings have continued for 32 years and still continues till today.
The exodus of Hindus from Kashmir (Pandits and Punjabis) robbed Kashmir of great scholars, teachers, judges, clerical knowledgeable people and the progressive communities of business, trade and development.
The only crime this refugee made was to love her/his own country of birth, India.
No devoted Indian can still go back to their homeland in Kashmir and live safely.
It has been an outright failure of the governing system.
32 years have slipped away…..of indifference.
This refugee still lives in hope.
Future of Kashmir cannot depend on words, it has to be written with actions:
- What time bound actions are on the table to settle the displaced minorities back to Kashmir permanently?
- When will the terrorists, inside and outside the system, be held accountable and prosecuted for the victims to get a closure for every peace loving progressive person of Indian origin?
Or
Will it be left suspended with the ramifications of indifference for yet another generation leaving them with no sense of history, and, no one will be alive from the times of this tragedy to say the truth ?Inaction is a win for terror.
Only action can remove fear to give hope.
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