A Slidecast on “The Abandoned” – Kashmiri Hindus in India
19 May 2012
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Some of you may remember a presentation on Article 370 and the The Plight of Kashmiri Hindus that I gave at the House of Commons last year (March ’11). Yesterday evening, I created a short slidecast (slides+audio) from the few slides that depicted the appalling and miserable conditions in the camps that house the Kashmiri Pandits – refugees in their own home..The audio was recorded from the far end of a large room so it is faint and may require you to turn your volume all the way up…Any feedback and comments gratefully accepted.
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Slidecast on "The Abandoned"
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“Every day we leave behind something of our identity,” the woman says. “Yesterday, it was the freedom to sing the national anthem, today it is the freedom to wear bindi, tomorrow it could be our faith.”
She breaks into sobs.
Soon others around her are weeping too. They feel safer inside the camp; outside, the world has changed. It is no longer the Kashmir they once knew.
“When we became refugees in 1990, our lives got confined to eight feet by eight feet rooms. More than twenty years later, we are still stuck”
This is from “The Nowhere People” – a report on the brave Pandits who have dared to return back to Kashmir and their plight. A report on women who dare not venture out..a report on a township that has become a hell-hole..and a community that founds itself without help, succour or sympathy – and fast losing hope..Pl do read, share – and most importantly think what can be done..Btw, did Rahul Gandhi comment on the plight of the Pandits during his recent visit to J&K?
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