Download or read book The Odyssey Of Kashmiri Pandits written by Dr. M.L.BHAT and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book The Odyssey of Kashmiri Pandits presents the pathetic life of Kashmiri Pandits in exile. The Mass Exodus from their homes in the year 1990, have left them as refugees in their own country. The original inhabitants of Kashmir, scattered all over the world, are now haunted by nostalgia of Paradise on Earth. They were hounded out, after inflicting taunts, physical abuse, miseries, loot, and selective killing. The exiled community hopes to go back to their home land some day. What could have been the reasons for all these miseries? Were the killers caught?
Download or read book The Odyssey of Kashmiri Pandits written by M. L. Bhat and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits written by Dr. Virendra Singh Baghel and published by The Readers Paradise . This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits or Hindus is their migration from the Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir in the early 1990s as a result of growing insurgency violence. Eighty to ninety percent of the total population of 1.2 million to 1.4 million pandits evacuated or were forced to leave the valley; those who refused were executed. During the period of significant migration, the insurgency was led by a movement advocating for a secular and independent Kashmir, but there was also an increasing number of Islamic factions advocating for an Islamic state. Targeted assassinations of high-profile leaders created an atmosphere of dread and panic throughout the state. The migration was caused by the Indian government's absence from the state and the lack of safety assurances.
Download or read book A Long Dream of Home written by Siddhartha Gigoo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, in the winter of 1990, about four hundred thousand Pandits of Kashmir were forced to leave Kashmir, their homeland, to save their lives when militancy erupted there. Even today, they continue to live as 'internally displaced migrants' in their own country. While most Kashmiri Pandits have now carved a niche for themselves in different parts of India, several thousands are still languishing in migrant camps in and around Jammu. The stories of their struggles and plight have remained untold for years. The authors of the memoirs in this anthology belong to four generations. Those who were born and brought up in Kashmir, and fled while they were in their forties and fifties; those who lingered on in their homes in Kashmir despite the threat to their lives; those who got displaced in their teens; and those who were born in migrant camps in exile. These narratives explore several aspects of the history, cultural identity and existence of the Kashmiri Pandits.These are untold narratives about the persecution of Pandits in Kashmir during the advent of militancy in 1989, the killings and kidnappings, loss of homeland, uprootedness, camp-life, struggle, survival, alienation and an ardent yearning to return to their land. These are stories about the re-discovery of their past, their ancestry, culture, and roots and moorings.
Download or read book Secrets of Heart written by Dr. M. L. Bhat and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book “Secrets of Heart” Impulses is an attempt to unravel the two puzzles: Intelligence and consciousness, in the light of the viewpoints of three great philosophers of the world. The book highlights the heights of Hinduism, the fountain head of Vedic Literature. The Beauty in Trinity, the Power of Intuition, and the Holiness of Sacred Numbers has been dealt with. The most Sacred Mantra from Veda, the Gayatri Mantra, its significance, its effectiveness and bearing on mankind has been highlighted. The burning topic of present day the Environmental Pollution, its causes, its impact on human beings and remedies have been dealt with. The author’s personal events and real time episodes bearing direct impact on mankind in general also find place in this book.
Download or read book Kashmir a Kaleidoscopic View written by D. N. Dhar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Examines Kashmir`S Ancient Cultural And Philosophical Glory, Social Development And Its Complicated Political Questions.
Download or read book Cultural Heritage of Kashmiri Pandits written by Śaśiśekhara Toshakhānī and published by Pentagon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir is not merely a geo-space, but is the geo-cultural matrix from which thoughts and concepts embedded in the depths of the consciousness of its people have emanated, giving shape to their civilizational ethos. The history of Kashmiri Pandits has been synonymous with the core of values derived from the intimacy between man and nature.
Download or read book From Home to House written by A Gigoo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of a community reduced to being tourists in their own homeland.It has been twenty-five years since around 3.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits were uprooted from their homes in the Kashmir valley due to militancy and changed circumstances. Many of them had to face the ignominy of living in tents, then in one-room tenements or flats, as refugees in their own country. They felt let down by both the state and central governments and by Indian society as a whole -- as well as by the Muslims of the valley. There was to be no going back for them.From Home to House is an anthology of short stories, essays and writings by Kashmiri Pandits in exile, vividly bringing out their nostalgia for Kashmir, their sense of betrayal, their attempts to pick up the pieces and carve a new life for themselves. These are the reflections of a lost and scattered people in what for them is an alien land. The writings show both their vulnerability -- their helplessness as they see their culture and way of life getting eroded -- and their resilience -- as the younger generation of Pandits spreads its wings and builds a whole new life for itself. This anthology holds a mirror to the troubled valley of Kashmir, a mirror from which the reflection of a section of its population is now missing.
Download or read book Shalimar the Clown written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story. Max Ophuls’ memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated—Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief—but it is much more. Ophuls is a giant, an architect of the modern world: a Resistance hero and best-selling author, brilliant economist and clandestine US intelligence official. But it is as Ambassador to India that the seeds of his demise are planted, thanks to another of his great roles—irresistible lover. Visiting the Kashmiri village of Pachigam, Ophuls lures an impossibly beautiful dancer, the ambitious (and willing) Boonyi Kaul, away from her husband, and installs her as his mistress in Delhi. But their affair cannot be kept secret, and when Boonyi returns home, disgraced and obese, it seems that all she has waiting for her is the inevitable revenge of her husband: Noman Sher Noman, Shalimar the Clown. He was an acrobat and tightrope walker in their village’s traditional theatrical troupe; but soon Shalimar is trained as a militant in Kashmir’s increasingly brutal insurrection, and eventually becomes a terrorist with a global remit and a deeply personal mission of vengeance. In this stunningly rich book everything is connected, and everyone is a part of everyone else. A powerful love story, intensely political and historically informed, Shalimar the Clown is also profoundly human, an involving story of people’s lives, desires and crises, as well as—in typical Rushdie fashion—a magical tale where the dead speak and the future can be foreseen.
Download or read book Uprooted and Forlorn the Tale of Kashmiri Pandits in Exile written by Rohit Tikoo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the uprooted Kashmiri Pandits who have been driven out from Kashmir by radical Jihadis and intolerant lunatics. The book highlights the concerns and challenges of Kashmiri Pandits in exile. The book deals in the surrounding and circumstances of the genocide and the forced exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. The book exposes the cliché which is built around citing the reason for terrorism to culminating denial of democratic aspirations and politics in the Kashmir. The book tries to answer some crude realities of the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits by providing certain facts in the public domain. The book reflects the psychosomatic problems and emotional trauma the community experienced in exile. It also explores the desperation and strength that has allowed us to survive even after three decades of mass exodus. The book also explores the fleeing conflicts. The book is a humble tribute to those who were martyred and gang-raped, and have been forsaken into oblivion. The book takes you through the blurry picture of human survival in ripped up tents of Mishriwala, Muthi and Purkhoo. The book highlights the core issues of the students completing their graduation in five years and the subsequent waste of careers. The book highlights the student struggle and loss of the academic years. It also explores the desperation and strength that has allowed us to survive even after three decades of mass exodus. The book also explores the emotional conflicts and tries to address those conflicts with a resounding resolution.
Download or read book The Sentiment in My Stone written by Aazib Manzoor and published by BlueRose. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story deals with an individual’s struggle against systemic abuse and the effect this struggle has on his cognition. The book takes a very personal and individualistic perceptive of the prevailing conditions of the protagonist’s state. While many authors have explored the effect of violence on individual behavior, the author tries to explore how this effect cascades and is percolated to every crevice of the societal order. The author also explores how this affects intimate relationships like family, friendship and love. Azlan is an ordinary Kashmiri boy. That is to say, ordinary to Kashmiri’s. He suffers domestic abuse, a suffocating political and social space, the constant fear of death and loss. On top he runs afoul of a tyrannical ruling system that takes sadistic delight in rooting out any voices. The same conditions force his brother to choose a path he has been taught to detest. However, the story of Azlan is yet to be written.
Download or read book The Last Queen of Kashmir Kota Rani written by Rakesh K Kaul and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prominent English Novelists of Jammu and Kashmir written by Bushra sarwar khan and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written to provide a concise guide to the major novelists of jammu and Kashmir and their respective works Much care has been taken to give due and proper credit, reference and acknowledgement to the writers whose works have been included in the text.Omissions expected. Hopefully,It will cater to the needs of undergraduate, graduate and research students of English Literature. Inspite of my best efforts,some errors or omissions might have crept in the text.I shall be grateful to the teachers and the students if they bring to my notice any mistakes or misprint that they come across.
Download or read book A Long Season of Ashes written by Siddhartha Gigoo and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1990, sixteen-year-old Siddhartha Gigoo is forced to flee his home in Safa Kadal, Srinagar, Kashmir. The preceding days have been full of fear and horror for the Gigoos, who have seen friends and neighbours killed outside their homes. They could be next if they don’t leave. But they want to stay on, even when faced with a looming threat to their lives. Siddhartha thinks his leaving is temporary and that he will be back home soon. Little does he know that his fate is sealed. What follows is a long, dark time—a ‘camp’ existence and a struggle for survival. Thirty-four years on, Siddhartha chronicles the story of his flight from Kashmir and an entire youth spent in exile. A meditation on the nature of memory, A Long Season of Ashes is a book about a boy’s journey of self-discovery.
Download or read book A Kashmiri Century written by Khemlata Wakhlu and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Magnificent Account of Kashmir's Social History Perhaps the most enigmatic region in the world, Kashmir has a special place in the Indian subcontinent's history. Over the several centuries of being ruled by kings from diverse faiths and cultures-Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Afghans, Sikhs and Dogras, the region has undergone various cycles of social, cultural and religious changes. Since India's independence, the Kashmir valley has received more media and government attention than any other state. The reasons have been mostly political than for its natural beauty, its contribution to Indian literature or its exuberant flora and fauna. A Kashmiri Century is a one-of-a-kind book that delves deep into the human side of living in the Valley, an aspect often missing in the cold political treatises on Kashmir. It offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Kashmiris-Hindus and Muslims alike-and how their existence revolved around the simple pleasures of life, even as they dealt with the many changes of the past one hundred years. As a native Kashmiri, writer and social worker who has spent the last five decades serving people, Khem Lata Wakhlu has seen the socio-political landscape change like few others. The stories in the book provide a glimpse of the Kashmir that her generation and her grandparents and parents grew up in. The all-encompassing view of Kashmiri ethos and culture brings a fresh outlook that is much needed in our times.
Download or read book Atmospheric Violence written by Omer Aijazi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite and alongside continuing violence. Departing from conventional approaches to the study of disaster and conflict that have dominated academic studies of Kashmir, Omer Aijazi’s ethnography of life in the borderlands instead explores possibilities for imagining life otherwise, in an environment where violence is everywhere, or atmospheric. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control and its surrounding mountainscapes, the book takes us to two remote mountainous valleys that have been shaped by recurring environmental disasters, as well as by the landscape of no-go zones, army barracks, and security checkpoints of the contested India/Pakistan border. Through a series of interconnected scenes from the lives of five protagonists, all of whom are precariously situated within their families or societies and rarely enjoy the expected protections of state or community, Aijazi reveals the movements, flows, and intimacies sustained by a landscape that enables alternative modes of life. Blurring the distinctions between story, theory, and activism, he explores what emerges when theory becomes a project of seeing and feeling from the non-normative standpoint of those who, like the book’s protagonists, do not subscribe to the rules by which most others have come to know the world. Bringing the critical study of disaster into conversation with a radical humanist anthropology and the capaciousness of affect theory, held accountable to Black studies and Indigenous studies, Aijazi offers a decolonial approach to disaster studies centering not on trauma and rupture but rather on repair—the social labor through which communities living with disaster refuse the conditions of death imposed upon them and create viable lives for themselves, even amidst constant diminishment and world-annihilation.
Download or read book BARK IS BITTER THAN BITE written by Dr. M. L. BHAT and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmiri Pandits have a five thousand-year old history which is horrible, horrific and horrendous, but these people are wonderful, in the sense that they have maintained themselves in body and soul, have preserved their cultural identity to a large extent and mostly guarded their rituals and customs. This book highlights the atrocities inflicted on Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of the valley. No drama can rival the grandeur of their sufferings of the last seven centuries. The mass exodus of 1990 has left Kashmiri Pandits refugees in their own country for the last 30 years.
