*This powerful and moving book throws new light onto one of the most tragic conflicts in the modern world. Every paragraph rings deeply true
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
A very powerful story’ VIDHU VINOD CHOPRA Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his
home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Panditsthe Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of ‘Azaadi’ from India.
The heartbreaking story of Kashmir has so far been told mainly through the prism of the brutality of the Indian security forces,
the pro-independence demands of Muslim separatists, or India and Pakistan’s political rivalry. But there is another part of Kashmir’s
history that has remained unrecorded and buried. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the untold chapter in the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants, and to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Rahul Pandita has written a deeply
personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.
A gripping hidden history of a community which suffered displacement … a firm rejoinder to the act of forgetting
