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|| Nobody || If you want to cry, use a tissue, not your tweets….. I do “what I want.”
Joined August 2022
This is the LAST pic of my HOME taken 22 years ago before it was brought down to rubble… All I have now is MEMORIES…. Who do I hold responsible for my Pain, suffering & miseries?
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Every grain, every spice tells a story of longing, exile, and devotion. Kashmiri Pandit cuisine isn’t just food… it’s the soul of a community that carries home in its memories, faith, and flavours… For me, more than a meal, it’s heritage served on a plate. Kashmiri Pandit
Kashmir From My Lens: The only place to sample authentic Kashmiri Pandit cuisine is in the Khir Bhawani temple premises, Tulmul. L2R: Kheer, Monje Nadur (kohl rabi with lotus stem), Dum Aloo, Moong Dal (lentils) Nadur Churma & Aloo Churma (Lotus Stem & Potato fritters)with rice!
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In 1994, The President of India, Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma visited Muscat on an official trip :- When the flight landed, 3 very unusual incidents took place: 1. The Sultan of Oman never goes to the airport to receive dignitaries of any country. But he made an exception this
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Happy birthday Dear @MoortiB wishing you good health, peace and happiness always 🎉🎂🎊💐🎁
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Even the next generation born in exile carries the unhealed wound of our genocide. The abandoned walls still breathe our memories, roots, and pain. One day, these girls and thousands like them must not just visit, but truly return…. with pride, with respect, and with dignity.
Two young Kashmiri Hindu girls, born after the exodus, visit their ancestral abandoned home in Kashmir for the first time. "Mother, the wound in my heart burns with pain, Let us light the hearth and return home again." 🏡✨ #Kashmir #Exodus
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Happy birthday @SapruSanjay you have a great year ahead bro 🎉💐🎊🎂
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1. My heart bleeds as a Kashmiri Hindu, exiled from my ancestral valley. On that horrific night of Jan 19, 1990, mosques blared threats: Convert, leave, or die. Over 7 lakh of us fled in terror—our homes looted, women assaulted, hundreds killed #Kashmir @narendramodi
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For 36 Raksha Bandhans, I and my entire #Kashmiripandit community have been exiled from the blessings of Lord Shiva at the sacred #Shankaracharya Temple in Srinagar. For generations, this day began with our footsteps climbing that holy hill, our prayers merging with the whispers
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A Crash Course on Genocide — For the Willfully Ignorant. Genocide is not just about mass graves. It is not always about gas chambers or machetes. It is defined by the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a particular group — based on religion, ethnicity, race, or nationality.
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“The first thing I picked up was my report card… because I thought, if we end up somewhere, how will I study?” This wasn’t just our thought — it was the instinctive response of countless #Kashmiripandits as we were forced to flee our homeland in the dark winter of exile. Years
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Old and new technology in quiet harmony… riding the chairlift was pure nostalgia. Oh my #Gulmarg If only you had caretakers who cherished it, not just used it for their own gain. #Gulmarg #PreserveNotExploit
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This used to be played all day on Radio Kashmir on the occasion of EID. Wonder if it still happens today. Eid Mubarak to all celebrating today.
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Years of wandering, mistakes, and searching, each step a lesson carved into his soul. The long road home wasn’t a place, but a becoming…
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The past sits so deep in your soul, you can never be free of it. ~ Ruth Wallage-Binheim, Interview 1998
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“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them” ~ Mahatma Gandhi I always strongly believed in this powerful quote with respect to Kashmir situation that took a dangerous turn in 1989-1990.
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Ah yes!! The timeless tale of the Kashmiri Pandit “Job Grab”!! that grand myth sold with such conviction to the extent of justifying a genocide of Pandits. You’d think we were running the entire state from some secret Pandit-only control room under Dal Lake or Nalah-e-Mar or
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You may hold power today, but time humbles all. It waits for no one and answers to none
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“We, the Tejpatta - the Bay Leaf” (A reflection on the Kashmiri Pandit truth) We, the Kashmiri Pandits, were the Tejpatta in the great dish of Kashmir. Dropped first into the oil— We faced the heat before anyone else. Our voices, our scriptures, our wisdom— They sizzled,
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