The book is a memoir about a time when the community of Kashmiri Pandits were treated brutally by Islamic fundamentalists in their own homeland and forcibly exiled from the state. Author Rahul Pandita himself witnessed some of these heartbreaking incidents in his homeland, when he was just a 14-year-old. At a very young age, Pandita along with his family was forced to leave Kashmir as they were Kashmiri Pandits, a minority community in the state.

There are many books that talk about post-independence time in Kashmir, but this one highlights the brutality of the Indian state and unjustified demands of separatists. Until Islamic militants attacked the state, Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims used to lived together happily and peacefully. But soon after the militant attack, hundreds of Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave.

More than 350,000 Pandits were evicted from Kashmir to live rest of their lives away from their own land. Their identities were cruelly stripped off and forced to live as refugees. Neither the central or the state government interfered in the matter, which has left the entire community to live as exiles in their own country.

This personal account also points out that that no huge media coverage was given to the pandits plight and attempts to bring into perspective how badly the Kashmiri Pandits were treated in that era, for many in the current generation do not even know about.

The author himself having gone through the trauma, experience the pain that was suffered by his family, highlights in detail the unfortunate happenings in Kashmir valleys recent but violent history. This is a good book for those who want to get into the depth of an issue that people vaguely know but don’t really care about.

About the author:
Journalist and author Rahul Pandita, is a 2015 Yale World Fellow, who was born in the north Indian state of Kashmir and spent his early years in the valley. Violent uprooting of the Kashmiri Pandit community in 1990 cast deep wounds on the author, who with his family were forced to leave Kashmir and live as refugees. Our Moon Has Blood Clots, a memoir of a lost home was published in 2013 and has been adapted for a Bollywood film script.
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